Writer Hanif Kureishi seriously injured in fall

The Buddha of Suburbia and My Beautiful Launderette writer Hanif Kureishi has said helium believed helium was dying aft an mishap successful Rome connected Boxing Day.

The Oscar-nominated scriptwriter and novelist said his injuries person near him incapable to determination his arms oregon legs.

"I cannot scratch my nose, marque a telephone telephone oregon provender myself," helium said. "As you tin imagine, this is some humiliating, degrading and a load for others."

A spine cognition has led to "minor improvements" successful caller days, helium said.

The 68-year-old described the mishap arsenic "a fall" aft feeling dizzy pursuing a walk.

"I woke up a fewer minutes aboriginal successful a excavation of blood, my cervix successful a grotesquely twisted position, my woman connected her knees beside me," helium explained successful a bid of messages posted connected Twitter.

He added: "I believed I was dying. I believed I had 3 breaths left. It seemed similar a miserable and ignoble mode to die."

His woman "saved my beingness and kept maine calm", helium explained. "For a fewer days I was profoundly traumatised, altered and unrecognisable to myself. I americium successful the hospital. I cannot determination move my arms and legs."

He continued: "I person sensation and immoderate question successful each my limbs, and I volition statesman physio and rehabilitation arsenic soon arsenic possible. I privation to convey the doctors and nurses astatine the Gemelli hospital, Rome, for each their bonzer kindness, competence and care.

"At the moment, it is unclear whether I volition ever beryllium capable to locomotion again, oregon whether I'll ever beryllium capable to clasp a pen, if determination is immoderate assistance that I would beryllium grateful for, it would beryllium with respect to voice-assisted hardware and software, which volition let maine to watch, constitute and statesman enactment again, and proceed immoderate benignant of half-life."

He asked followers to nonstop ideas that mightiness assistance him.

"I privation to convey each my readers for their emotion and enactment implicit the years. Love Hanif," helium concluded.

Kureishi's screenplay for the 1985 movie My Beautiful Laundrette was nominated for an Academy Award and launched Daniel Day-Lewis's acting career.

The movie was directed by Stephen Frears and described a narration betwixt a cheery skinhead and a Pakistani-British boy.

Kureishi's archetypal novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, was an planetary bestseller successful 1990 and won the Whitbread publication of the twelvemonth grant for a archetypal novel.

The publication was turned into a four-part tv bid by the BBC successful 1993, with David Bowie providing a opus of the aforesaid name.

Kureishi besides wrote the screenplays for Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and London Kills Me, which helium besides directed.

Other works see his play The Mother, which told of a cross-generation narration betwixt a grandma and a joined handyman fractional her age. That besides became a film, starring Anne Reid and Daniel Craig.

His 2006 screenplay Venus earned champion histrion nominations astatine the Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe awards for seasoned histrion Peter O'Toole.