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In My Own Words: Hanif Kureishi review – so frank it’s breathtaking

Two years ago, a catastrophic fall changed Kureishi’s life in an instant. But it’s clear from this film that it hasn’t changed his wild, hilarious, trailblazing spirit

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024

TV tonight: Hanif Kureishi reflects on life before and after his fall

The writer is unsentimental about his devastating accident in a moving new film. Plus: Richard E Grant on Mozart the musical prodigy. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024

The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review

A new era at the RSC opens with a potent staging by Emma Rice and Hanif Kureishi of his classic everyman tale and a clever take on Shakespeare’s comedy that cuts through the verbiage – with help from a Bridgerton stalwart

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2024

Hanif Kureishi: accident ‘completely eradicated’ sense of self and privacy

Author says he had to adjust to ‘becoming another person’ after injuries in Boxing Day fall last year

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2023

Hanif Kureishi says ‘world seems much darker’ on anniversary of Boxing Day accident

Kureishi, 69, lost the use of his hands and legs after a devastating accident in Rome last year

The Independent UK · Dec 26, 2023

Andrew Malkinson, wrongly convicted of rape, to guest edit BBC’s Today

Miscarriage of justice victim will be among programme’s Christmas editors which also include Hanif Kureishi and James May

The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2023

We can revile Putin’s violence in Ukraine, but we’re not at war with Russian culture

Elizabeth Gilbert was wrong to stop her novel being published on account of its setting

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023

Hanif Kureishi to publish memoir about accident that left him paralysed

Shattered, out in 2024, will expand on the material the Buddha of Suburbia author has been sharing on social media from his hospital bed since a fall in Rome last year

The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2023

Taking drugs with your children? Gen Z won’t even want to share a beer with us

Hanif Kureishi talks of cocaine nights with his kids. He makes the whole issue sound simple. I can’t believe it is, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2023

The Forsyth Effect: is Rishi Sunak’s old school friend shaking up the government?

The PM’s new advisor is one of his oldest friends

Evening Standard · Mar 14, 2023