Hanif Kureishi, the British screenwriter of My Beautiful Laundrette, pictured in 1988.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/the-acclaimed-writer-dictating-daily-dispatches-from-his-hospital-bed-20230116-p5ccws.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Just after Christmas, the writer Hanif Kureishi was taking a long walk in Rome, where he and his wife, Isabella D’Amico, were spending the holiday, when he suddenly collapsed onto the sidewalk.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/books/hanif-kureishi-twitter-hospital.html

What, Kureishi wondered, would today’s sensitivity readers have made of his own early novels and “what butchery would have gone on”.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/18/no-work-of-art-is-the-voice-of-a-nation-every-culture-comprises-several-strands

Writing from his hospital bed in the Italian capital, Kureishi, 68, said that he had been on a walk with his wife when he began to feel dizzy, and lent forwards to put his head between his legs.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/hanif-kureishi-accident-update-salman-rushdie-b2259962.html