Author says he had to adjust to ‘becoming another person’ after injuries in Boxing Day fall last year
Hanif Kureishi has spoken candidly of how his sense of self and privacy have been “completely eradicated” after a fall on Boxing Day last year left him unable to use his hands, arms or legs.
As guest editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the novelist and screenwriter also said he had to adjust to “becoming another person” after the accident, which happened as he was walking in Rome.
