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Hanif Kureishi
This article is about the British playwright and screenwriter. For the Indian street art artist and designer, see Hanif Kureshi.
English writer (born )
Hanif Kureishi CBE (born 5 December ) is a British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmskapare, and novelist. He is known for his film My Beautiful Laundrette and novel The Buddha of Suburbia.
Early life and education
[edit]Hanif Kureishi was born on 5 December [1] in Bromley, South London, to a Pakistani father, Rafiushan (Shanoo) Kureishi, and an English mother, Audrey Buss.[2][3][4] His father was from a wealthy family based in Madras (now Chennai), whose members moved to Pakistan after the Partition of India in [5] Rafiushan's father was a colonel and doctor in the British Indian Army. Rafiushan went to the same Cathedral School attended bygd Salman Rushdie, and the family were later close to the Bhuttos. Rafiushan's brother (Hanif's uncle), Omar
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On Boxing Day , the writer Hanif Kureishi had a fall that left him paralysed from the neck down. His son Sachin reflects on a year caring for his once-carer.
‘So, how’s your dad?’ Everyone asks the question with the same eyes. Anxious, yes. Sympathetic, yes. They’d rather not ask, but they know they must. They’ve seen me now. Time for a difficult conversation.
It’s been more than a year since my father’s trip to Rome to spend Christmas with his girlfriend. It was on Boxing Day that he fainted and fell, injured his neck and became paralysed from the head down. Countless hospitals, operations, doctors, flights and interviews later, he’s finally home in west London, albeit transformed.
Today, as we prepare to leave the house, we speak about the same things we always did. But now he’s telling me about the friendly bike thieves he watches from his window as his live-in carer carries out his bed bath. We discuss our favourite vape
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Hanif Kureishi is the author of novels such as &#;The Buddha of Suburbia&#; and &#;Intimacy&#;, story collections, plays and screenplays. &#;The Buddha of Suburbia&#; was made into a BBC TV series with a soundtrack by David Bowie. &#;My Beautiful Laundrette&#;, a story about a gay Pakistani-British boy growing up in ’s London, won the New York Film Critics Best Screenplay Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. &#;Intimacy&#; was loosely adapted in the controversial movie Intimacy that won two Bears at the Berlin Film Festival.
Your new novel will be published in the coming months. What is it about?
It is a slightly different genre from the stuff I’ve done before. It concerns an older man in his eighties who is confined to a wheelchair and his younger Muslim wife, and her relationship with a con man who comes to stay with them in their flat. It’s a triangle. It’s hardboiled, but I also hope amusing and entertaining. It’s set in their flat, and the con m