Hanif Kureishi CBE (born 5 December 1954) is a British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and novelist. He is known for his film My Beautiful...
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The Buddha of Suburbia (novel) (category Novels by Hanif Kureishi)
The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) is a novel by British Pakistani author Hanif Kureishi, which won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel. The novel has...
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Michell's contemporaries at the Court included Antonia Bird, Simon Curtis, Hanif Kureishi and, as his stage manager, Danny Boyle. In 1979 he left the Royal Court...
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My Beautiful Laundrette (category Films with screenplays by Hanif Kureishi)
romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. The film was one of the first films released by Working Title Films...
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screenplay he co-wrote with Anne-Louise Trividic, based on stories by Hanif Kureishi (who also wrote a novel of the same title). It stars Kerry Fox and Mark...
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (category Films with screenplays by Hanif Kureishi)
1987 British film directed by Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. Sammy and Rosie are a married couple, both leading a promiscuous bohemian...
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Le Week-End (category Films with screenplays by Hanif Kureishi)
Duncan, and Jeff Goldblum. Written by Hanif Kureishi, the film is the fourth collaboration between Michell and Kureishi, who both began developing the story...
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Kureishi is a Pakistani surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hanif Kureishi (born 1954), British playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and...
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Peter Frampton, and a teacher of musician David Bowie and novelist Hanif Kureishi. Frampton was born in the Kennington district of London, England. His...
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The Mother (2003 film) (category Films with screenplays by Hanif Kureishi)
a 2003 British drama film directed by Roger Michell and written by Hanif Kureishi. It stars Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan, Steven Mackintosh...
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My Beautiful Laundrette is a play by Hanif Kureishi adapted from his screenplay for the 1985 film of the same name. The film was highly successful and...
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My Son the Fanatic (category Novels by Hanif Kureishi)
Fanatic is a short story written by Hanif Kureishi first published in The New Yorker in 1994. It was reprinted in Kureishi's 1997 collection of short stories...
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Howitt, Richmal Crompton, Pixie Lott, Matt Terry, Christopher Tennant, Hanif Kureishi, Peter Frampton, Aleister Crowley, bassist Steven Severin of Siouxsie...
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contemporary history in order to defend Islam and Muhammad. English writer Hanif Kureishi called the fatwa "one of the most significant events in postwar literary...
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Jago Eliot. Guests who have attended the festival in past years are Hanif Kureishi, James Flint, Hari Kunzru and Louis de Bernières. The 2010 festival...
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The Buddha of Suburbia (TV serial) (category Films with screenplays by Hanif Kureishi)
BBC Two in November 1993. Based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Hanif Kureishi, the series starred Naveen Andrews as the main character, Karim Amir...
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The New York Times, Gaiutra Bahadur wrote, "'India Calling' has what Hanif Kureishi once described as 'the sex of a syllogism.' Full-figured ideas animate...
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My Son the Fanatic (film) (category Films with screenplays by Hanif Kureishi)
British comedy drama film directed by Udayan Prasad. It was written by Hanif Kureishi as an adaptation of his short story My Son the Fanatic. The plot of...
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novella, published with seven other stories, in a 2003 collection by Hanif Kureishi. The narrator of the titular novella, Adam, is a British writer in his...
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The Black Album is the second novel written by British author Hanif Kureishi. Published in 1995 by Faber and Faber, the novel was adapted for the stage...
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novelist Hanif Kureishi during a press tour for Black Tie White Noise (1993), where Bowie agreed to compose music for an upcoming adaptation of Kureishi's novel...
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J. Moore-Gilbert (2001). Hanif Kureishi. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-5535-5. "Remembering Maki Kureishi (1927-1995)", Pakistan: The...
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Intimacy (novel) (category Novels by Hanif Kureishi)
Intimacy is a 1998 novel by Hanif Kureishi. The novel deals with a middle-aged man and his thoughts about leaving his wife and two young sons. Set in contemporary...
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Venus (2006 film) (category Films with screenplays by Hanif Kureishi)
by Roger Michell and produced by Kevin Loader, from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. The film stars Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Richard...
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an actor, Khan Din's roles include Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid in (1987), Hanif Ruparell in the soap opera Coronation Street...
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of the main locations of the novel The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), by Hanif Kureishi. Numerous prominent personages were born or have lived in Beckenham...
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novel by Hanif Kureishi The Black Album (1995), a novel by Qaisra Shahraz The Black Album (play), a play based on the book by Hanif Kureishi Top R&B/Hip-Hop...
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four-part adaptation of the ground-breaking novel of the same name by Hanif Kureishi and with a soundtrack written and performed specifically for the production...
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3, 2020. Kemp, Stuart (April 16, 2013). "Ben Kingsley, Anupam Kher, Hanif Kureishi, Nicole Scherzinger Among U.K. Asian Awards Honorees". The Hollywood...
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of well-known British mixed-race people such as Bruce Oldfield and Hanif Kureishi, as well as political figures such as Tony Benn. From 2006 to 2010,...
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