A currently crippling fall, Hanif Kureishi cannot walk or “ever hold a pin”.
In a series of social media posts today, the My beautiful laundry Schreiber describes how a moment of vertigo on December 26 in Rome led to a near-death experience. “I thought I was dying,” the Oscar nominee wrote on Twitter in 1986. “I thought I had three breaths left.”
“I can’t scratch my nose, call or feed myself,” said Kureishi, who explained that he had experienced “slight improvements” since undergoing spinal surgery in recent days.
In a moving and explicit thread, the award-winning playwright, author and screenwriter said he was watching a football match between Premier League rivals Liverpool and Aston Villa in the Italian capital when he became nauseous and passed out:
Kureishi – best known this side of the Atlantic for the 1985 cross-cultural love story dry cleaning servicestarring Daniel Day-Lewis directed by Stephen Frears and a 1993 miniseries The suburban Buddhawith music composed and performed by David Bowie – remains in hospital in Rome.
The wonderful Kureishi, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in the days of Reagan and Thatcher, won the prestigious 1990 Whitebread Book Award (now the Costa Book Awards) for a debut novel for Suburb Buddha A critical chronicler of British cultural, economic and racist reality, Kureishi was born in South London and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008.
Writer: Dominic Patten
Source: Deadline
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