On the day after Christmas, the British novelist and playwright Hanif Kureishi was visiting Rome when he suddenly blacked out in his apartment and woke up immobilized. “I then experienced what can ...

"You'd think that a book about a paralysed man lying in hospital for a year would be bound to be boring," said Lynn Barber in The Spectator. But this memoir "never is". Hanif Kureishi is "such an ...

Hanif Kureishi’s new work, Shattered: A Memoir is a collection of ‘dispatches’, essentially a diary, originally dictated by Kureishi while hospitalised in Rome and later London, following the accident ...

A fall rendered British-Pakistani screenwriter, filmmaker, and novelist Hanif Kureishi “divorced” from his body. Last January, on X, he posted, “I then experienced what can only be described a scooped ...

In 2022 an accident left the novelist paralysed. His blackly comic memoir, Shattered, is a devastating portrait of an imprisoned mind. By Chris Power In 2014, reflecting on his career to date, Hanif ...