Shattered

Hanif Kureishi in conversation with Monisha Rajesh

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This event took place on 14 June 2025

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Shattered
Hanif Kureishi in conversation with Monisha Rajesh

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This event took place on 14 June 2025

Live Streamed from the British Library as part of Jaipur Literature Festival London.

After a devastating fall in Rome, Hanif Kureishi was left immobile. From his hospital bed, he began to dictate powerful reflections on illness, identity, love, and writing. 

Shattered is the result: An odyssey of survival which presents an intimate chronicle of transformation. In conversation with Monisha Rajesh, Kureishi takes us on an unexpected journey of healing through language.

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Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. In addition to the memoir, Shattered, he is the author of nine novels, including The Buddha of Suburbia (winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel), The Black Album, Intimacy, and The Nothing. His screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette was nominated for an Oscar, and he is the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize and the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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