Hanif Kureishi
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Created on May 9, 2022
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Hanif
1.1 FAMILY BACKROUND
3.1 CAREER- &
5. SOURCES
1. INTRODUCTION
- born 5th December 1954 in Bromley, South London
- is a British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist
- 2008: The Times "The 50 greatest British Writers" since 1945
Rafiushan (Shanoo) Kureishi, the father:
- from Pakistan, wealthy Madras family
- came to the UK to study law in 1950
Audrey Buss, the mother
- from UK
- Bromley Technical Highschool
- Bromley College of Technology
- The Buddha of Suburbia from this period (1972)
- (Student Union President in 1972 )
- 1 year studying philosophy at Lancaster University
- King´s College London -> degree in philosophy
1st novel
- started his career as a pornography writer in 1970
- he won 1981 the George Devine Award with his play the "Outskirt"
- 1982 he got nominated as a writer in residence at the Royal Court Theatre in London
- 7 novels, 2 stroy collections, 14 plays and screenplays and 3 nonfictions
- he received 9 awards and honors
- his passion - to write and to enlighten people
3.2 HIS WORK
Novels
1990 The Buddha of Suburbia. London: Faber and Faber.
Story collections
1997 Love in a Blue Time London: Faber and Faber.
1980 The King and Me. London: Faber and Faber.
2002 Dreaming and Scheming: Reflections on Writing and Politics
Plays and screenplays
- Hanif Kureishi is married to Tracey Scoffield
- has twin boys and a younger son
- lives currently in West London with his family
- appointed Commander of the British Empire (2008)
- In 2013 -> lost all his life savings
- family issues -> writing work
- appointed as a professor in the creative writing department at Kingston University in London 2013
HIS FAMILY
5. SOURCES
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/11/kureishi-hanif/
https://www.bl.uk/people/hanif-kureishi
https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/hanif-kureishi
https://www.gradesaver.com/hanif-kureishi-short-stories/personal-life
https://www.grin.com/document/57962
https://www.npr.org/2006/08/22/5688683/kureishi-on-changes-in-british-immigrant-life?t=1650106732160
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/magazine/10kureishi-t.html
https://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090215/spectrum/book4.htm
https://www.wob.com/en-us/books/hanif-kureishi/intimacy/9780571276158
https://www.zvab.com/erstausgabe/Buddha-Suburbia-Kureishi-Hanif-Viking-New/6946421201/bd
https://mubi.com/de/cast/hanif-kureishi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22nPSVogfc&t=2s