Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi grew up in Kent and studied philosophy at King's College London. His novels include The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, The Black Album, Intimacy and The Last Word. His screenplays include My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and Le Week-End. He has also published several collections of short stories. He has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and been translated into thirty six languages.
Books by Hanif Kureishi
Collected Essays
Published: April 2011
Hanif Kureishi's essays collected together for the first time.
Collected Stories
Published: November 2010
The essential collection from one of Britain's most celebrated and controversial writers.
The Black Album
Published: October 2009
The playscript, adapted by Hanif Kureishi from his own novel.
Something to Tell You
Published: March 2009
A wonderfully colourful, warm and epic novel of London life, love, sex and regret from one of Britain's greatest contemporary writers.
The Word and the Bomb
Published: December 2005
A collection of Kureishi's most controversial and though-provoking writing on the gulf between fundamentalist Islam and Western values
My Ear at His Heart
Published: November 2005
Following the discovery of an unfinished manuscript written by his father, Kureishi looks back on his own development as a writer in the light of his father s unrealised literary ambitions
My Beautiful Laundrette
Published: July 2005
