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Hanif Kureishi

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Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi is the author of novels (including The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album and Intimacy), story collections (Love in a Blue Time, Midnight All Day, The Body), plays (including Outskirts, Borderline and Sleep With Me), and screenplays (including My Beautiful Laundrette, My Son the Fanatic and Venus). Among his other publications are the collection of essays Dreaming and Scheming, The Word and the Bomb and the memoir My Ear at His Heart.Kureishi was born in London to a Pakistani father and an English mother. His father, Rafiushan, was from a wealthy Madras family, most of whose members moved to Pakistan after the Partition of India in 1947. He came to Britain to study law but soon abandoned his studies. After meeting and marrying Kureishi’s mother Audrey, Rafiushan settled in Bromley, where Kureishi was born, and worked at the Pakistan Embassy.Kureishi attended Bromley Technical High School where David Bowie had also been a pupil and after taking his A levels at a local sixth form college, he spent a year studying philosophy at Lancaster University before dropping out. Later he attended King’s College London and took a degree in philosophy. In 1985 he wrote My Beautiful Laundrette, a screenplay about a gay Pakistani-British boy growing up in 1980’s London for a film directed by Stephen Frears. It won the New York Film Critics Best Screenplay Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay.His book The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel, and was also made into a BBC television series with a soundtrack by David Bowie. The next year, 1991, saw the release of the feature film entitled London Kills Me; a film written and directed Kureishi.His novel Intimacy (1998) revolved around the story of a man leaving his wife and two young sons after feeling physically and emotionally rejected by his wife. This created certain controversy as Kureishi himself had recently left his wife and two young sons. It is assumed to be at least semi-autobiographical. In 2000/2001 the novel was loosely adapted to a movie Intimacy by Patrice Chéreau, which won two Bears at the Berlin Film Festival: a Golden Bear for Best Film, and a Silver Bear for Best Actress (Kerry Fox). It was controversial for its unreserved sex scenes. The book was translated into Persian by Niki Karimi in 2005.He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.Kureishi is married and has a pair of twins and a younger son.


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Hanif Kureishi is the author of novels (including The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album and Intimacy), story collections (Love in a Blue Time, Midnight All Day, The Body), plays (including Outskirts, Borderline and Sleep With Me), and screenplays (including My Beautiful Laundrette, My Son the Fanatic and Venus). Among his other publications are the collection of essays Dreaming and Scheming, The Word and the Bomb and the memoir My Ear at His Heart.Kureishi was born in London to a Pakistani father and an English mother. His father, Rafiushan, was from a wealthy Madras family, most of whose members moved to Pakistan after the Partition of India in 1947. He came to Britain to study law but soon abandoned his studies. After meeting and marrying Kureishi’s mother Audrey, Rafiushan settled in Bromley, where Kureishi was born, and worked at the Pakistan Embassy.Kureishi attended Bromley Technical High School where David Bowie had also been a pupil and after taking his A levels at a local sixth form college, he spent a year studying philosophy at Lancaster University before dropping out. Later he attended King’s College London and took a degree in philosophy. In 1985 he wrote My Beautiful Laundrette, a screenplay about a gay Pakistani-British boy growing up in 1980’s London for a film directed by Stephen Frears. It won the New York Film Critics Best Screenplay Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay.His book The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel, and was also made into a BBC television series with a soundtrack by David Bowie. The next year, 1991, saw the release of the feature film entitled London Kills Me; a film written and directed Kureishi.His novel Intimacy (1998) revolved around the story of a man leaving his wife and two young sons after feeling physically and emotionally rejected by his wife. This created certain controversy as Kureishi himself had recently left his wife and two young sons. It is assumed to be at least semi-autobiographical. In 2000/2001 the novel was loosely adapted to a movie Intimacy by Patrice Chéreau, which won two Bears at the Berlin Film Festival: a Golden Bear for Best Film, and a Silver Bear for Best Actress (Kerry Fox). It was controversial for its unreserved sex scenes. The book was translated into Persian by Niki Karimi in 2005.He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.Kureishi is married and has a pair of twins and a younger son.


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The Last Word

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Intimacy

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The Black Album

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Love in a Blue Time

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Love in a Blue Time is a brilliant collection of stories by the bestselling...

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My Beautiful Laundrette: Screenplay (FF Classics)

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Midnight all Day

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Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories

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My Son, the Fanatic

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Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay...

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The Last Word

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This is the new novel from Hanif Kureishi: an outrageous, clever and very...

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My Ear at His Heart

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Collected Stories

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A collection of short stories by Hanif Kureishi. It includes 'Weddings...

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London Kills Me: Three Screenplays and Four Essays

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Set in the middle of a rioting London neighborhood, this is the story of a...

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The Word and the Bomb

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Over the past 10 years Hanif Kureishi has charted the gradual widening of...

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My Beautiful Laundrette

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The author, half British, half Pakistani, describes his childhood and...

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The Black Album with My Son the Fanatic: A Novel and a Short Story

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A single-volume compilation of two of the Oscar-nominated...

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The Faber Book of Pop

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This acclaimed collection charts the course of Pop from its underground...

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My Beautiful Laundrette and Other Writings

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Hanif Kureishi's groundbreaking 1984 screenplay My Beautiful...

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Dreaming and Scheming: Collected Prose: Reflections on Writing and Politics

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In the essay 'The Rainbow Sign', which was first published in...

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Collected Essays

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"This collection of Hanif Kureishi's essays begins in the early 1980s...

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The Mother

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At 65 years of age, May fears that life has passed her by. But then her...

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Sleep With Me

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In Hanif Kureishi's latest play -- his first new work for the stage...

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The Black Album: Adapted for the Stage

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Long before Islamic fundamentalism became a household phrase, Hanif...

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Hanif Kureishi Plays 1:"King and Me,Outskirts,Borderline,Birds of Passage v. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics)

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In 1981 Hanif Kureishi was voted most promising playwright of the year by...

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Venus

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Goodbye mother

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