The British writer Hanif Kureishi suffers a fall and loses the mobility of his arms and legs: "I don't know if I will be able to hold a pen again"

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The British writer and screenwriter

, known for the film

, has suffered a fall in Italy and has seen himself "die", he assured himself this Friday.

He has added that he arrived at the hospital without being able to move his arms or legs.

"Last Boxing Day in Rome I had a fall," the 68-year-old British author tweeted on Friday.

"I had just seen Mo Salah's goal against Aston Villa, I was having half a beer when

. I leaned forward and fell, woke up a few minutes later in a pool of blood."

"

. I thought I had three breaths left," he explains.

"I'm in the hospital. I can't move my arms or legs."

"I can't scratch my nose, make a phone call or feed myself. As you can imagine, it's humiliating, demeaning and a burden to others," he also explains on Twitter, where he claims

.

"At the moment

, or if I will be able to hold a pen again," he says.

The son of a Pakistani father and an English mother,

has put integration at the center of his many novels, short stories, screenplays, and plays.

The screenplay for

(1985), a comedy directed by Stephen Frears that evokes the racism, homosexuality and violence of the Margaret Thatcher years, launched him to fame.

His youth inspired him to write his first novel,

, in 1990. In it, he humorously portrays the daily life of a mixed-race teenager who wants at all costs to flee his hometown to explore London in the 70s.

The semi-autobiographical novel would be adapted three years later as a series on the BBC, with a soundtrack composed by

, a fan of the book who grew up in the same town as him, south London.

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