Hanif Kureishi's Books
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Something to Tell YouSomething to Tell You is an exhilarating novel by one of the most original and celebrated voices in British fiction and film.Read More
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The Black Album with My Son the FanaticTogether for the first time, two of Hanif Kureishi's best and most important stories about the Muslim community in England.Read More
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Gabriel's GiftGabriel's father, a washed-up rock musician, has been chucked out of the house by Gabriel's mother, who works nights and sleeps days. Lonely Gabriel...Read More -
Intimacy and Midnight All DayTogether in one volume -- Hanif Kureishi's highly acclaimed and controversial novel, Intimacy, and, available for the first time, his latest collection...Read More
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LOVE IN A BLUE TIMEThis provocative collection of short stories charts the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of...Read More
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BLACK ALBUMTogether for the first time, two of Hanif Kureishi's best and most important stories about the Muslim community in England.Read More
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My Ear at His HeartFrom the acclaimed novelist Hanif Kureishi, a remarkable memoir about the India-Pakistan divide, a hidden manuscript, and a father and a son.Read More
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Oxford Times, November 5, 2009
...with a lecturer. Shahid is truly torn between two sets of conflicting values. Thus runs the plotline of Hanif Kureishi’s novel The Black Album. Now Kureishi — perhaps best known for the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette — has adapted his book...
Guardian.co.uk, November 2, 2009
...Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven translated by James Anderson James Howard Kunstler World Made By Hand Hanif Kureishi Something To Tell You Rachel Kushner Telex from Cuba Feri Lainscek Murisa translated by Erica Johnson Debelsak ...
Chester Chronicle, October 28, 2009
...by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle STILL SHOWING ANNIE (Venue Cymru, Llandudno, October 27-31) FROM its Broadway beginnings to the classic film musical, this heartwarming rags to riches story of Annie?s adventures from the New York orphanage to the home...
Chester Chronicle, October 27, 2009
...by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle STILL SHOWING ANNIE (Venue Cymru, Llandudno, October 27-31) FROM its Broadway beginnings to the classic film musical, this heartwarming rags to riches story of Annie?s adventures from the New York orphanage to the home...
Chester Chronicle, October 27, 2009
...by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle STILL SHOWING ANNIE (Venue Cymru, Llandudno, October 27-31) FROM its Broadway beginnings to the classic film musical, this heartwarming rags to riches story of Annie?s adventures from the New York orphanage to the home...
Abu Dhabi National, October 16, 2009
...He launched his own company in 2000 and has collaborated with the artist Anish Kapoor and the writer Hanif Kureishi. Naples-born Enzo Avitabile is one of Italys most renowned and original musical stars. He has worked with, among others, James Brown and...
Suite101.com, September 28, 2009
...Authors include John Le Carre, Marina Lewycka, Nicholas Shakespeare, William Boyd, Alexander McCall Smith, Helen Fielding, Xiaolu Guo, Hanif Kureishi, Victoria Hislop, Michael Morpurgo and DBC Pierre. Each book begins with an original poem by Vikram...
The Bookseller, September 15, 2009
...Writers Lynn Barber, A S Byatt, Nick Hornby and Hanif Kureishi plus the literary editor of the Sunday Times Andrew Holgate are to judge a new prize which will be the world's richest for an individual short story. The...
Times Online, September 12, 2009
...has just been published; AS Byatt, a former Booker winner, who is also on this year?s shortlist; Hanif Kureishi, the author and screenwriter; and Lynn Barber, whose novel An Education has just been made into a film. Barber, a prize-winning journalist,...
Playbill, August 20, 2009
...Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album, his stage adaptation of his novel, plays at the National's Cottesloe Theatre prior to a national tour. Jatinder Verma, co-founder and artistic director of...
Time, August 20, 2009
...When the Queen made Hanif Kureishi a Commander of the British Empire in 2008, she gave him a medal embossed with the logo: 'For God and Empire.' 'You can't get better than that,' the...
Whatsonstage.com, August 17, 2009
...? McGuinness was also behind the run of Oedipus last winter at the National. The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi Faber, 9.99 It's been described as 'an embarrassing flop', 'twee', 'clunking' and even 'absolutely dismal'. Critics say Kureishi's adaptation...
Yahoo! News Australia, July 24, 2009
...LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hanif Kureishi has signed on to write the screen adaptation of Aravind Adiga's Booker Prize-winning novel 'The White Tiger,' which explores India's economic rise to power through the eyes...
Yahoo! News Australia, July 24, 2009
...LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hanif Kureishi has signed on to write the screen adaptation of Aravind Adiga's Booker Prize-winning novel 'The White Tiger,' which explores India's economic rise to power through the eyes...
Yorkshire Post, July 17, 2009
...Firsts: a repackaging of 10 first novels by 10 of Faber's key writers, a list which includes Hanif Kureishi, Sylvia Plath, William Golding, Orhan Pamuk and Kazuo Ishiguro. And, published this month, a book. Eighty Years of Book Cover Designs is a tome...
The Independent, July 4, 2009
...return to. While it seems brutal to single out any stories above others, those by Marina Lewycka and Hanif Kureishi, in Earth, are a beautifully odd juxtaposition of styles hers folksy Ukrainian ('we have a saying in Ukraine: 'Keep your head cool, your...
Walrus Magazine, June 19, 2009
...talented, educated population. We were very lucky to get them. What I had not noticed, and people like Hanif Kureishi and Nadim Aslam and to an extent, Salman Rushdie, started pointing out, was that the guys who are coming from the backlands of Pakistan,...
Mail Online UK, June 18, 2009
...Franks, who play Shahid the student and Dee Dee his lover, a college professor, in The Black Album, Hanif Kureishi's adapatation of his 1995 novel which begins at the National Theatre from July 14. The drama is set in 1989 against a backdrop of radical...
Variety, May 27, 2009
...for the director prize for Filipino Brillante Mendoza's rape-and-dismemberment drama 'Kinatay' (of which even admiring jury member Hanif Kureishi admitted, 'I don't ever want to see it again, myself'), followed by jeers for 'Thirst' and mainland Chinese...
CityLife, May 18, 2009
...Carol Oates and Etgar Keret. The New Uncanny features specially commissioned stories from the likes of AS Byatt, Hanif Kureishi and Frank Cottrell Boyce, among others. For more information about Comma Press and the Shirley Jackson Awards follow the links...
Guardian Unlimited, May 8, 2009
...Tarantino and Ken Loach ? or how she intends to run a jury including British novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and award-winning Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. When she steps out to give an opening speech on Wednesday, expectations will be...
Guardian Unlimited, May 8, 2009
...Tarantino and Ken Loach ? or how she intends to run a jury including British novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and award-winning Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. When she steps out to give an opening speech on Wednesday, expectations will be...
Variety, April 24, 2009
...Ceylan, director, screenwriter, actor, Turkey Lee Chang-dong, director, author, screenwriter, South Korea James Gray, director, screenwriter, U.S. Hanif Kureishi, author, screenwriter, U.K. Shu Qi, actress, Taiwan Robin Wright Penn, actress, U.S. LA...
CityLife, April 23, 2009
...s Moves Film Festival and will feature adaptations of literary works from the likes of John Cooper Clarke, Hanif Kureishi, David Constantine, Kath McKay and many others. Mockumentary The films range from stop-frame animation to mockumentary, lens-less...
Variety, April 16, 2009
...those four strong characters.' Loader also points to the impact of 'My Beautiful Laundrette,' especially its screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. 'He writes very well about those kinds of friendships that do become sexualized,' he says. The producers of 'Milk'...
The Times, April 15, 2009
...on a tide of sub-Dickensian comedy. To anyone brought up on the London cosmopolitanism of Zadie Smith or Hanif Kureishi, London Belongs to Me may seem less a novel than a piece of dramatized sociology, or even an anthropological study. Like an...
Inside Story, April 7, 2009
...media, including as a regular reviewer on BBC2. Some Myerson supporters cite recent examples of authorial licence ? Hanif Kureishi, for example ? where the hurt caused to the writer?s former intimates has not resulted in a literary fatwa. Is this...
Guardian Unlimited, March 27, 2009
...no doubt, and it will be interesting to see how these budding talents compare with the likes of Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Rose Tremain and James Lasdun, all either shortlisted or winners in previous years. While I accept that the short story is a hard...
Chowk, March 15, 2009
...voices are joining in this expanding tribe. These new voices include the names of Tariq Ali, Moniza Alvi, Hanif Kureishi, Sara Suleri, Mohsin Hamid, Bina Shah, Kamila Shamsi and Mouhammad Hanif. But before we proceed, let us tackle the question what we...
Guardian Unlimited, March 15, 2009
...mother was said to have had reservations about his memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father?. Hanif Kureishi's sister was not happy about her brother's portrait of her in The Mother, even if it was disguised as fiction. And Frank McCourt's memoir,...
Business Standard India, March 14, 2009
...Set in the heart of multiracial London, a territory made immensely recognisable by such writers as Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith, Corner Shop tackles familiar themes of exile and the grip of the past in a new and invigorating fashion....
Huffington Post, February 1, 2009
...Hanif Kureishi is embarked on an experiment. 'I am determined,' he says with an expressionless stare, 'to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding. No more...
The Independent, January 29, 2009
...city but in more petit-bourgeois boroughs. Multi-culti London thrives most on the page amid gentility, not grime: with Hanif Kureishi, from The Buddha of Suburbia through to Something To Tell You; in Zadie Smith's White Teeth, or at respectable addresses...
The Independent, January 15, 2009
...is a poetic novel about desire and violence. It's about Islamics in Turkey. I'm also re-reading Hanif Kureishi's collection of stories 'Love in a Blue Time' which are incredibly tender. He is one of my favourite authors. Visual arts In New York I saw the...
The Scotsman, January 2, 2009
...of the publisher's iconic design, and new 'Faber 80' editions are planned of books by Rohinton Mistry, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Orhan Pamuk, William Golding and Sylvia Plath. Incidentally, just so you're ready for the pub quiz question: the second...
Guardian Unlimited, December 31, 2008
...citizen's arrest of John Bolton, US undersecretary of state for arms control prior to the Iraq war. Hanif Kureishi describes creative writing courses as the 'new mental hospitals', children's authors rebel against age-banding on books and Garry Kasparov...
Guardian Unlimited, December 27, 2008
...a paucity of state-of-the-nation novelists, writers able to move freely across the map and get an aerial view. Hanif Kureishi puts it like this: 'Dickens had a sense of the whole society, from prisoner to home secretary. No writer has that now.' Place is...
Slate, December 16, 2008
...lived on the same page of the A-Z all of my adult life,' narrator Jamal declares early in Hanif Kureishi's novel . Just as Jamal walks the same London streets every afternoon, Kureishi has been working over the same subjects for the last quarter-century:...
Jamestown Post-Journal, December 1, 2008
...Magnan; The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror edited, Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling; Something to Tell You, Hanif Kureishi; Hot Mahogany, Stuart Woods; A Map of Home, Randa Jarrar; The Butt, Will Self; The Northwoods Chronicles, Elizabeth Engstrom; The...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, October 23, 2009
...Guardian Hay festival at Kings Place, a three-day series of talks beginning today from authors including Charlie Higson, Hanif Kureishi, Will Self and Martin Amis. For tickets and more information please click here ...
Laptop Computer Digital TV Tuners, October 9, 2009
...Maureen Stapleton, Eli Wallach, Robert Webber, and Hayley Taylor Block. (116 minutes, 1987) My Son the Fanatic: Author Hanif Kureishi once more studies a Pakistani coming to terms with his life in England. In this case it's a taxi driver Puri who's...
PetinaGappah, August 21, 2009
...The Nairobi Hay Storymoja Festival was an absolute blast. The writers and others there included Vikram Seth, Hanif Kureishi, Tony Kan, Kate Adie, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Francois Devenne, Monica Arac, Tolu Ogunlesi, Chika Unigwe, Lee Siegel, Doreen Baingana,...
Alternative Film Guide, May 20, 2009
...Actor - Turkey) Lee CHANG-DONG (Director, Writer, Screenwriter - South Korea) James GRAY (Director, Screenwriter - United States) Hanif KUREISHI (Writer, Screenwriter - United Kingdom) Shu QI (Actress - Taiwan) Sharmila TAGORE (Actress - India) Robin...
JAKE WEIRD, May 16, 2009
...Ceylan, director, screenwriter, actor, Turkey Lee Chang-dong, director, author, screenwriter, South Korea James Gray, director, screenwriter, U.S. Hanif Kureishi, author, screenwriter, U.K. Shu Qi, actress, Taiwan Robin Wright Penn, actress, U.S....
the Fashion Spot, May 13, 2009
...Ceylan, director, screenwriter, actor, Turkey Lee Chang-dong, director, author, screenwriter, South Korea James Gray, director, screenwriter, U.S. Hanif Kureishi, author, screenwriter, U.K. Shu Qi, actress, Taiwan Robin Wright Penn, actress, U.S. LA...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, May 7, 2009
...of power: Cover Her Face – PD James New York Trilogy – Paul Auster Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath Lord of the Flies – William Golding The White Castle – Orhan Pamuk A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro Such...
Variety.com, April 23, 2009
...Ceylan, director, screenwriter, actor, Turkey Lee Chang-dong, director, author, screenwriter, South Korea James Gray, director, screenwriter, U.S. Hanif Kureishi, author, screenwriter, U.K. Shu Qi, actress, Taiwan Robin Wright Penn, actress, U.S. LA...
[Technorati] Tag results for golden, April 23, 2009
...Ceylan, director, screenwriter, actor, Turkey Lee Chang-dong, director, author, screenwriter, South Korea James Gray, director, screenwriter, U.S. Hanif Kureishi, author, screenwriter, U.K. Shu Qi, actress, Taiwan Robin Wright Penn, actress, U.S. LA...
Conversational Reading, April 20, 2009
...G. Wodehouse (17), Tom Sharpe (15), Martin Amis (15), Julian Barnes (14), Anthony Powell (12), Ian McEwan (12), Hanif Kureishi (12), David Lodge (11). Autores españoles: Javier Tomeo (18), José Antonio Marina (17), Soledad Puértolas (17), Enrique...
Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Forums ~ BellyBelly, April 5, 2009
...Bridesmaid ? and ? To Fear A Painted Devil Ruth Rendell The Drowning Mark Alan Scholefield The Body Hanif Kureishi The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe C.S Lewis...
The Millions, March 29, 2009
...and Year in Reading contributor Wells Tower give far-ranging interviews in a new online journal, Wag's Review Hanif Kureishi discusses life after the Rushdie fatwa. A bibliography of coffee . The editor of John Updike's book reviews remembers the writer:...
Christchurch City Libraries Blog, March 19, 2009
...a valid one. Just dreadful. Any novel with the word “panties” in it. Icky and wrong. Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi. A personal watershed and the moment I realised that it was selfish to read cook books in bed. Don’t be shy, put the boot in………...
baithak, February 2, 2009
...Hanif Kureishi is embarked on an experiment. "I am determined," he says with an expressionless stare, "to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding. No...
KnowRead/KnoWrite, January 26, 2009
...Kemal One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey x @ The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing x @ How Green...
A Work in Progress, January 25, 2009
...by Yasar Kemal One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing How Green...
Sylvia Plath, January 20, 2009
...The best novels about madness guardian.co.uk, UK - 20 Jan 2009 Until recent novels by Hanif Kureishi among others put an end to the tug of war between writers and shrinks, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar was one of the few...
Cabbage Rabbit Review of Books & Music, January 9, 2009
...Those who believe that shrinks are as neurotic and deluded as their patients will find supporting evidence in Hanif Kureishi’s latest novel Something To Tell You (Scribners, $26). Kureishi, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright and novelist,...
Season's readings Hari Kunzru to Philip Pullman: writers and politicians pick the best books of 2008
baithak, December 4, 2008
...remember from growing up, a world that now feels very far away in time, as well as space. Hanif Kureishi: I read Alex Ross's beautifully written The Rest Is Noise (Fourth Estate) with excitement and pleasure, as it links the numerous and diverse strands...
Kutukutubuku.com Blog, December 4, 2008
...Iain Banks Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald Platform – Michael Houellebecq Schooling – Heather McGowan Atonement – Ian McEwan The Corrections –...
Great New Books that Are a Must Read, December 2, 2008
...and His Father: Tony Napoli and My Father, My Don Four Authors for Fall: Jeff Pearlman, Naomi Nye, Hanif Kureishi, and Philip Roth Salman Rushdie's Novel The Enchantress of Florence: Magical Realism at its Best...
Great New Books that Are a Must Read, November 27, 2008
...and His Father: Tony Napoli and My Father, My Don Four Authors for Fall: Jeff Pearlman, Naomi Nye, Hanif Kureishi, and Philip Roth Salman Rushdie's Novel The Enchantress of Florence: Magical Realism at its Best...
Great New Books that Are a Must Read, November 21, 2008
...and His Father: Tony Napoli and My Father, My Don Four Authors for Fall: Jeff Pearlman, Naomi Nye, Hanif Kureishi, and Philip Roth Salman Rushdie's Novel The Enchantress of Florence: Magical Realism at its Best Author Kevin Gerard Offers Advice on Being...
