Hanif Kureishi

Taking to Twitter, the author says he may never be able to walk or lift a pen again.

“I want to thank all my readers for their love and support over the years. He also thanked the doctors and nurses at the hospital for taking care of him. British-Pakistani writer of The Buddha of Suburbia, the international bestseller of 1990, Hanif Kureishi collapsed in Rome and says he may not be able to walk or write again.

Kureishi tweeted that he has been hospitalised but fears he may never be able to walk or use a pen again.

Kureishi also said that he has had an operation on his spine and will begin physiotherapy and rehabilitation as soon as possible. Kureishi is being treated at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, where he has been since the fall. Kureishi tweeted he “began to feel dizzy” after watching a game of football.

British playwright and screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi, who rose to fame with his 1985 screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette, a tale of a gay Pakistani man ...

Kureishi was born in London to an English mother and Indian father who left for Pakistan after the He has asked his followers for any voice-assisted devices that may allow him “to watch, write and begin work again, and continue some kind of half life.” “At the moment, it is unclear whether I will ever be able to walk again, or whether I’ll ever be able to hold a pen…”

British-Pakistani Hanif Kureishi, the author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a 1990 global hit, fainted in Rome and feared he might never be able to walk or ...

He said, “I had just seen Mo Salah score against Aston Villa, sipped half a beer when I began to feel dizzy. The 68-year-old claimed that he felt “divorced” from himself and that he only had “three breaths left” before he passed away. He claimed in a tweet that he hasn’t been able to move his arms or legs since the incident that happened a few days before the New Year.