Hanif Kureishi says Sir Salman Rushdie has written to him every day as he continues to recover from a fall which left him unable to move his arms or legs.
The author and playwright, 68, posted a lengthy update on his condition online, in which he said Sir Salman had encouraged him to be patient.
Kureishi – best known for his works The Buddha Of Suburbia, Intimacy and Mother – revealed on Twitter that he was being treated at a hospital in Rome following an incident on December 26. He said he had begun to feel “dizzy” while on a walk in the Italian capital and had fallen forward, waking up minutes later in a pool of blood with his neck “in a grotesquely twisted position”.
