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Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi
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Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi won the prestigious Whitbread Prize and was twice nominated for Oscars for best original screenplay (My Beautiful Laundrette and Venus, which starred Peter O'Toole). In 2010 Kureishi received the prestigious PEN/Pinter Prize. He lives in London.

The Body is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 01, 2011
The Body will be released on April 01, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Apr 01, 2011
My Ear at His Heart is now available in Hardcover
Mar 09, 2010
My Ear at His Heart will be released on March 09, 2010 in Hardcover
Mar 09, 2010
My Ear at His Heart will be released on March 09, 2010 in eBook
Mar 09, 2010
My Ear at His Heart is now available in eBook
Mar 09, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from My Ear at His Heart
Feb 18, 2010
Something to Tell You is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 20, 2009
Something to Tell You will be released on October 20, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Oct 20, 2009
BLACK ALBUM is now available in Trade Paperback
Aug 04, 2009
The Black Album with My Son the Fanatic will be released on August 04, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Aug 04, 2009
Aug 04, 2009
His Ear At My Heart is now available in eBook
Aug 01, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 8 from LOVE IN A BLUE TIME
Jun 19, 2009
His Ear At My Heart will be released on August 01, 2009 in eBook
Jan 07, 2009
His Ear At My Heart will be released on August 01, 2009 in eBook
Dec 19, 2008

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The Statesman, February 11, 2012
...fond of offbeat cinema have seen many stories featuring the immigrant experience. Many writers like Monica Ali and Hanif Kureishi have been adapted in the West. It is good that Rushdie is finally making his cinematic debut instead of not making it ever,...
The Express Tribune, February 10, 2012
...alongside the coolest old-timer in Karachi, Arif Hasan . At high noon, the blazing bad boy of British fiction Hanif Kureishi rides into town. The only damper is that he will be moderated by Muneeza Shamsie. Surely a more provocative, prodding muse...
Guardian.co.uk, February 10, 2012
...so much: Angela Carter with her wry tales of wickedly desiring women; Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood, AS Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Sharon Olds … the list grew, and I hadn't even mentioned Shakespeare. Then – probably because I had recently made a BBC...
The Express Tribune, February 9, 2012
...writers and poets have been flown to Karachi and, apart from the usual suspects of Pakistani literature, include Hanif Kureishi, Mirza Waheed and William Dalrymple. The two-day weekend will be a cornucopia of reading and learning and as always, the entry...
The Independent, January 27, 2012
...could also be removed in a moment. When someone is speaking truthfully, the future can always be different. Hanif Kureishi's 'Collected Essays' and 'Collected Stories' are published by Faber & Faber...
Sri Lanka Sunday Times, January 21, 2012
...panel of the UK Sunday Times AFG Short Story prize in the very literary company of Melvyn Bragg, Hanif Kureishi and Edna O’Brien. The Orange is a prize she takes singular pleasure in - open to women writers all around the world, to books published in...
Guardian.co.uk, January 17, 2012
...and her husband. A coalition of writers including former children's laureate Michael Morpurgo, Helena Kennedy, Monica Ali, Hanif Kureishi, Nick Hornby and Alan Ayckbourn have written to the home secretary, Theresa May, to urge her not to deport Lydia...
Cultural Capital, October 12, 2011
...and sometimes knowingly grotesque this artistic epic is."What is Madness? by Darian LeaderIn the Independent's review, Hanif Kureishi writes that "Darian Leader brilliantly shows [that] ... deciding who the mad actually are ... is quite a job. After a...
iSlaPent, September 22, 2011
...significant texts. Writers examined include: Ian McEwan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jeanette Winterson, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Hanif Kureishi, Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker. Tackling issues such as history, time and narrative, the...
3quarksdaily, September 17, 2011
...Colonel Muhammed Khan. Ibne Safi. Ismat Chugtai.Q Which authors do you enjoy reading now?A Bret Easton Ellis. Hanif Kureishi. Alan Bennett. Lorrie Moore.More here.Posted by Abbas Raza at 09:37 AM | PermalinkSubscribe to this blog's feed ...
Bookhugger.co.uk, July 27, 2011
...Brackstone, critic James Wood, who chose to discuss Ian McEwan’s Atonement in TGOTN, Faber author Frances Wilson (Hanif Kureishi’s Intimacy ), and Amit Chaudhuri (Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things ). The Good of the Novel, Literary...
Bookhugger.co.uk, July 27, 2011
...Brackstone, critic James Wood, who chose to discuss Ian McEwan’s Atonement in TGOTN, Faber author Frances Wilson (Hanif Kureishi’s Intimacy ), and Amit Chaudhuri (Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things ). The Good of the Novel, Literary...
3quarksdaily, July 13, 2011
...« How an LCD Monitor Works |Main July 13, 2011 THE Q&A: HANIF KUREISHI, AUTHOR JP O'Malley in More Intelligent Life : Mr Kureishi's favoured themes of race, class, sexuality and religion all inform the pieces compiled in “Collected Essays”, released...
normblog, July 12, 2011
...its supposed depths. A few years ago in an Observer essay on the state of the British novel, Hanif Kureishi was quoted lamenting that unlike in Dickens's time there was not one writer around today who 'had a sense of the whole society, from prisoner to...