were a "waste of time" and commented that 99.9% of his students were talentless. In 2014, the British Library announced that it would be acquiring the archive of Kureishi's documents spanning 40 years of his writing life. The body of work was to include diaries, notebooks and drafts. On 26 December 2022, Kureishi was hospitalised following a fall in Rome, which left him with spinal injuries and unable to move his limbs. According to Kureishi, the fall triggered a Near-death experience. The author stated in an interview that he was convinced he was going to die while in hospital. Kureishi stated that his partner, Isabella d'Amico, helped keep him calm and saved his life. Major influences on Kureishi's writing include P.G. Wodehouse and Philip Roth. Awards and honours 1980 Thames Television Playwright Award, The Mother Country 1981 George Devine Award, Outskirts 1986 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette 1986 Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette 1990 Whitbread First Novel Award, The Buddha of Suburbia 2007 National Short Story Competition, shortlist for "Weddings and Beheadings" 2008 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 2010 PEN/Pinter Prize 2013 Outstanding Achievement in the Arts at The Asian Awards. Written works Novels 1990 The Buddha of Suburbia, London: Faber and Faber 1995 The Black Album, London: Faber and Faber 1998 Intimacy, London: Faber and Faber 2001 Gabriel's Gift, London: Faber and Faber 2003 The Body, London: Faber and Faber 2008 Something to Tell You, London: Faber and Faber 2014 The Last Word, London: Faber and Faber 2017 The Nothing, London: Faber and Faber 2019 What Happened?, London: Faber and Faber Story collections 1997 Love in a Blue Time, London: Faber and Faber 1999 Midnight All Day, London: Faber and Faber 2019 "She Said, He Said", The New Yorker Collection of stories and essays 2011 Collected Essays, Faber and Faber 2015 Love + Hate: Stories and Essays, Faber & Faber Plays and screenplays 1980 The King and Me, London: Faber and Faber 1981 Outskirts, London: Faber and Faber 1981 Borderline, London: Faber and Faber 1983 Birds of Passage, London: Faber and Faber 1988 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, London: Faber and Faber 1991 London Kills Me, London: Faber and Faber 1996 My Beautiful Laundrette and other writings, London: Faber and Faber 1997 My Son the Fanatic, London: Faber and Faber 1999 Hanif