Hanif Kureishi's Books
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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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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...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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Observer, August 14, 2010
...sign perched perfectly above his head: My Beautiful Laundrette. (Frears's much-loved film, based on a script by Hanif Kureishi, was made in 1985.) Frears has been married twice – to the editor of the London Review of Books, Mary-Kay Wilmers, until the...
Guardian.co.uk, August 14, 2010
...sign perched perfectly above his head: My Beautiful Laundrette. (Frears's much-loved film, based on a script by Hanif Kureishi, was made in 1985.) Frears has been married twice – to the editor of the London Review of Books, Mary-Kay Wilmers, until the...
Guardian.co.uk, August 14, 2010
...sign perched perfectly above his head: My Beautiful Laundrette. (Frears's much-loved film, based on a script by Hanif Kureishi, was made in 1985.) Frears has been married twice – to the editor of the London Review of Books, Mary-Kay Wilmers, until the...
GQ Magazine UK, August 11, 2010
...Entertainment by Helen Simpson The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman Collected Stories by Hanif Kureishi Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis and the conclusion of Tony Parsons' bestselling Harry Silver trilogy,...
Telegraph, August 6, 2010
...by the Empire.' In 1993 McWilliam was named alongside, among others, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alan Hollinghurst (her friend) and Hanif Kureishi as one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists. The following year she published Debatable Land, for which she won the...
Telegraph, August 6, 2010
...by the Empire.' In 1993 McWilliam was named alongside, among others, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alan Hollinghurst (her friend) and Hanif Kureishi as one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists. The following year she published Debatable Land, for which she won the...
Macon Telegraph, June 16, 2010
...Falling Down," David Lodge "Cosmopolis," Don DeLillo "Eleven," David Llewellyn "Hogfather," Terry Pratchett "Intimacy," Hanif Kureishi "Molly Fox's Birthday," Deidre Madden "Mr. Phillips," John Lanchester "Mrs. Dalloway," Virginia Woolf "Next," James...
Herald Scotland, June 14, 2010
...in Jaipur in Rajasthan each January, to which he invites many UK writers such as Alexander McCall Smith, Hanif Kureishi and Mark Tully, who appeared earlier this year. But with one child away from home during the school year already and another getting...
TradingMarkets, June 12, 2010
...Falling Down," David Lodge "Cosmopolis," Don DeLillo "Eleven," David Llewellyn "Hogfather," Terry Pratchett "Intimacy," Hanif Kureishi "Molly Fox's Birthday," Deidre Madden "Mr. Phillips," John Lanchester "Mrs. Dalloway," Virginia Woolf "Next," James...
Her World, June 4, 2010
...– to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself,” the author writes on the next page. Hanif Kureishi sees the act of moving on as an optimistic step towards the future. That’s probably true. But what scares me is that most professions of love...
Irish Times, May 27, 2010
...discuss “How to Live” – and how books can help us to do it better. Last up is Hanif Kureishi, at 8pm, and fans of his novels (including the wonderful The Buddha of Suburbia) and film scripts (My Beautiful Launderette) can hear the writer read from...
Guardian.co.uk, May 21, 2010
...Suburbia (1993) Before playing Lost's in-house torturer Sayid, Naveen Andrews starred in the BBC's adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's 1990 novel with Harish Patel and Brenda Blethyn. Complete with a David Bowie theme tune , it's an energetic romp through...
Guardian.co.uk, May 21, 2010
...you add? Before playing Lost's in-house torturer Sayid, Naveen Andrews starred in the BBC's adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's 1990 novel with Harish Patel and Brenda Blethyn. Complete with a David Bowie theme tune, it's an energetic romp through the culture...
Guardian.co.uk, May 5, 2010
...As Hanif Kureishi publishes his collected short stories, he talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about his career, and his determination to escape the suburbs in favour of velvet trousers, drugs and cultural self-invention...
Hindustan Times, May 3, 2010
...I was interviewing Hanif Kureishi last week, and I asked, towards the end, what he reads these days. “Everything changes once you have children, doesn’t it?” he said. I couldn’t agree more...
MSN UK, April 20, 2010
...store now and features over 200 pieces of short-form writing, including brand new stories from Shriver, McCall Smith, Hanif Kureishi, Toby Litt and Matthew Kneale. 'I know publishers don't like short stories because they're difficult to sell,' Bartleet...
HotPress.com, April 19, 2010
...Anne Enright, Peter Fallon, Alan Gillis, Vona Groarke, Dermot Healy, Seamus Heaney, Biddy Jenkinson, Jennifer Johnston, Declan Kiberd, Hanif Kureishi, John Lynch, Manchán Magan, Derek Mahon, Yann Martel, Ian McEwan, Medbh McGuckian, Susan McKay,...
TechRadar.com, April 19, 2010
...store now and features over 200 pieces of short-form writing, including brand new stories from Shriver, McCall Smith, Hanif Kureishi, Toby Litt and Matthew Kneale. "I know publishers don't like short stories because they're difficult to sell," Bartleet...
Times Online, April 1, 2010
...British writers Will Cohu Joe Dunthorne and Adam Marek and from the bestselling American novelist David Vann. Judge Hanif Kureishi said the tale was a wry, perceptive look at rivalry and love. It was a pleasure to read, and is a fine example of how a...
M2, March 29, 2010
...which was launched by Sunday Times Magazine deputy editor Cathy Galvin, included Nick Hornby, Lynn Barber, AS Byatt, Hanif Kureishi and Andrew Holgate, literary editor of The Sunday Times. (USD1=GBP0.67...
CBC, March 27, 2010
...won. The judging panel, which included fellow writers such as Nick Hornby, Lynn Barber, A.S. Byatt and Hanif Kureishi, called it a 'wry, perceptive look at rivalry and love.' Last Season's Man chronicles the downfall of a young Croatian writer who dares...
Times Online, March 27, 2010
...he tried to destroy, live on, still writing. The bittersweet ending reveals who has the last laugh. Judge Hanif Kureishi said the tale was a wry, perceptive look at rivalry and love. It was a pleasure to read, and is a fine example of how a short story...
stuff.co.nz, March 27, 2010
...a respected elder in an article, bruising his ego and damaging his reputation among the intellectual community. Judge Hanif Kureishi said it was a 'wry, perceptive look at rivalry and love'. 'It was a pleasure to read, and is a fine example of how a...
Straits Times, March 26, 2010
...The bittersweet ending reveals who has the last laugh. The award - judged by writers including AS Byatt, Hanif Kureishi and Nick Hornby - was billed as the most valuable prize for short stories in the world. Kureishi said the winning title, chosen from a...
Yahoo! News Australia, March 26, 2010
...a respected elder in an article, bruising his ego and damaging his reputation among the intellectual community.Judge Hanif Kureishi said it was a "wry, perceptive look at rivalry and love"."It was a pleasure to read, and is a fine example of how a short...
Yahoo! News, March 26, 2010
...example of how a short story should be constructed and written," said one of the judges, author Hanif Kureishi. Stead, 77, has published 11 novels, two collections of short stories and 15 collections of poems, as well as six books of literary criticism...
Yahoo! News Australia, March 26, 2010
...The bittersweet ending reveals who has the last laugh.The award - judged by writers including AS Byatt, Hanif Kureishi and Nick Hornby - was billed as the most valuable prize for short stories in the world.Kureishi said the winning title, chosen from a...
Silk FM, March 26, 2010
...bittersweet ending reveals who has the last laugh. The award - judged by writers including A.S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi and Nick Hornby - is billed as the most valuable prize for short stories in the world. Kureishi said the winning title, chosen from a...
DCExaminer.com, March 26, 2010
...The bittersweet ending reveals who has the last laugh. The award — judged by writers including AS Byatt, Hanif Kureishi and Nick Hornby — was billed as the most valuable prize for short stories in the world. Kureishi said the winning title, chosen...
InSing.com, March 26, 2010
...example of how a short story should be constructed and written," said one of the judges, author Hanif Kureishi. Stead, 77, has published 11 novels, two collections of short stories and 15 collections of poems, as well as six books of literary criticism...
ONE News, March 26, 2010
...fine example of how a short story should be constructed and written,' said one of the judges, author Hanif Kureishi. Stead, 77, has published 11 novels, two collections of short stories and 15 collections of poems, as well as six books of literary...
BBC, March 26, 2010
...recognition the new prize gives to the short story. The judges of the award included novelists AS Byatt, Hanif Kureishi and Nick Hornby. Kureishi said the winning story was a "pleasure to read" and "a fine example of how a short story should be...
Guardian.co.uk, March 16, 2010
... William Boyd, Hanif Kureishi and Michael Morpurgo to contribute to anthology of animal stories, inspired by Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, intended to raise money for endangered species More than 100 years...
M2, March 8, 2010
...comprised of author Nick Hornby; AS Byatt, a poet, novelist and author of short stories; writer Lynn Barber; Hanif Kureishi, a novelist, director, screenwriter and playwright; Matthew Evans, Chairman of EFG Private Bank; and Andrew Holgate, The Sunday...
Yahoo! News Australia, March 7, 2010
...a new annual literary prize. The judges are novelist and poet A S Byatt; novelist, director and playwright Hanif Kureishi; interviewer and writer Lynn Barber; author Nick Hornby; and the literary editor of The Sunday Times, Andrew Holgate. Byatt said it...
Guardian.co.uk, March 5, 2010
... A sense of urgency makes up for a lack of range in Hanif Kureishi's stories, says Christopher Tayler Illustration by Clifford Harper/agraphia.co.uk During the 1980s and early 90s, Hanif Kureishi's screenplays, novels and plays made him not only a...
Guardian.co.uk, March 5, 2010
...A sense of urgency makes up for a lack of range in Hanif Kureishi's stories, says Christopher Tayler During the 1980s and early 90s, Hanif Kureishi's screenplays, novels and plays made him not only a famous writer but a talismanic figure...
The Independent, March 1, 2010
...Publish and be damned: Young writer's ego dramatically punctured 8 Love Poems, By Carol Ann Duffy 9 Hanif Kureishi: 'We're all mixed-race now 10 Carol Ann Duffy: Street-wise heroines at home 11 Fay Weldon: 'All that anti-man stuff is no longer...
Helium, February 24, 2010
...In 1970s London, Karim has a somewhat complicated family life. His father, Haroon, is in love with a woman that isn't his wife and wants to move in with her; the rise in interest in spiritualism has led to his popularity as a teacher. His dad's best...
Yahoo! News Australia, February 21, 2010
...77 and come from around the world.The judges will be novelist and poet A.S. Byatt; author Hanif Kureishi; writer Lynn Barber; author Nick Hornby and the literary editor of The Sunday Times, Andrew Holgate.The shortlist will be released on Sunday March 7...
Yahoo! UK and Ireland, February 21, 2010
...77 and come from around the world. The judges will be novelist and poet A.S. Byatt; author Hanif Kureishi; writer Lynn Barber; author Nick Hornby and the literary editor of The Sunday Times, Andrew Holgate. The shortlist will be released on Sunday March...
Bangladesh Daily Star, January 31, 2010
...in English from Bangladesh. Among the authors present at the festival were international stars like Alexander McCall Smith, Hanif Kureishi, Louis De Berniere, Booker Prize winners Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, diaspora heroes...
Yahoo! India, January 27, 2010
...Hanif Kureishi's children don't read his books. "They don't read any books. They've got their Playstations. They find literature festivals idiotic," says Kureishi, dead-pan, after being...
Outlook India, January 25, 2010
...in the literature festival next year. 200 writers including the likes of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, British author Hanif Kureishi, Roberto Colasso and Geoff Dyer descended for one of Asia's biggest literary five-day fest...
Indo-Asian News Service, January 23, 2010
Meri News, January 20, 2010
...Wole Soyinka, Henry Louis Gates, Roberto Calasso, Alexander McCall Smith, Steve Coll, Tina Brown, Geoff Dyer, Niall Ferguson, Hanif Kureishi, Stephen Frears, Ali Sethi, Vikram Chandra and talented Indian Dalit writers like Om Prakash Valmiki and V....
Times of India, January 20, 2010
...Chandra, Mahasweta Devi, Steve Coll, Lawrence Wright and Gulzar. There will be a strong Pakistani contingent which includes Hanif Kureishi, Ali Sethi and H M Naqvi. The festival, in its fifth year, has kept growing bigger. Over 12,000 people attended...
Manorama Online, January 19, 2010
...Wole Soyinka, Henry Louis Gates, Roberto Calasso, Alexander McCall Smith, Steve Coll, Tina Brown, Geoff Dyer, Niall Ferguson, Hanif Kureishi, Stephen Frears, Ali Sethi, Vikram Chandra and talented Indian Dalit writers like Om Prakash Valmiki and V....
Yahoo! India, January 18, 2010
...Wole Soyinka, Henry Louis Gates, Roberto Calasso, Alexander McCall Smith, Steve Coll, Tina Brown, Geoff Dyer, Niall Ferguson, Hanif Kureishi, Stephen Frears, Ali Sethi, Vikram Chandra and talented Indian Dalit writers like Om Prakash Valmiki and V....
Tehelka, January 8, 2010
...This year, there will be more than 150 writers, including such literary stars as Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Hanif Kureishi, Geoff Dyer and Vikram Chandra. Gokhale admits that some of those who’ve seen the festival grow are nostalgic for the initial...
The Independent, December 7, 2009
...More than 600 entries were submitted for the prize, which in previous years has included shortlisted works by Hanif Kureishi and Rose Tremain. Singer Will Young, author Dame Margaret Drabble and Orange Prize winner Helen Dunmore were among the judges....
The Independent, December 3, 2009
...such as Distance and Swung, a real sign of hope. It gives to the fearless erotic comedy of Hanif Kureishi, who publishes his Collected Stories early next year, the role of a landmark and lifeline for those readers who still find the literary scene...
Guardian.co.uk, December 1, 2009
...he's pretty much my favourite author – there are at least 10 novels, more than Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, John Updike or Margaret Atwood. But he isn't. In fact, he's a long way from it. Why not? It wasn't always thus. There was a time...
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,...
BrightsideKid, August 16, 2010
...Naked - Nick Hornby 79. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 80. Love in a Blue Time - Hanif Kureishi 81. What I Was - Meg Rosoff 82. Playing the Moldovans at Tennis - Tony Hawks 83. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Oscar Wilde 84. The No. 1...
Great Literary Works, August 8, 2010
...Walcott 32. Kazuo Ishiguro 33. Anita Brookner 34. A. S. Byatt 35. Ian McEwan 36. Geoffrey Hill 37. Hanif Kureishi 38. Iain Banks 39. George Mackay Brown 40. A. J. P. Taylor 41. Isaiah Berlin 42. J. K. Rowling 43. Philip Pullman 44. Julian Barnes 45....
BrightsideKid, August 3, 2010
...Naked - Nick Hornby 79. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 80. Love in a Blue Time - Hanif Kureishi 81. What I Was - Meg Rosoff 82. Playing the Moldovans at Tennis - Tony Hawks 83. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Oscar Wilde 84. The No. 1...
BrightsideKid, July 29, 2010
...Naked - Nick Hornby 79. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 80. Love in a Blue Time - Hanif Kureishi 81. What I Was - Meg Rosoff 82. Playing the Moldovans at Tennis - Tony Hawks 83. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Oscar Wilde 84. The No. 1...
BrightsideKid, July 23, 2010
...Naked - Nick Hornby 79. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 80. Love in a Blue Time - Hanif Kureishi 81. What I Was - Meg Rosoff 82. Playing the Moldovans at Tennis - Tony Hawks Currently reading; 83. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Oscar Wilde...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, March 8, 2010
...more heartfelt and meditative. This kind of progression is present, too, in the new work that appears in Hanif Kureishi's Collected Stories . Each one is compressed, stark and strangely compelling; there's a feeling of progression here that his last...
baithak, March 7, 2010
...Sees a Terror Threat; Pakistanis See a Heroine Under the Radar News 3.5.2010 Collected Stories by Hanif Kureishi Book review Re- experiencing the classics On Autoantonymy Audit Notes: God of Journalism, Pandit Panned, Wolff’s Own Medicine Arundhati Roy...
DUNYA HANIYA!, March 5, 2010
...Mother stereotype. It was refreshing to see a film about conservative Muslims, doing the right thing (not like Hanif Kureishi’s stuff). Found a book online that I am requesting via Inter-Library Loan: Covering the Moon . I’ll post a review when it...
The Pakistani Spectator, February 28, 2010
...Pakistani writers who were published and were making a living . Bapsi Sidhwa was a unique figure. There was Hanif Kureishi who is, in many ways, a British writer. But what happened was that suddenly the path of writing as a profession for a Pakistani...
PetinaGappah, February 21, 2010
...pretty exceptional story to appeal to judges as diverse as AS Byatt, Nick Hornby, Lynn Barber, Andrew Holgate, Hanif Kureishi and Lord Matthew Evans ... My money is on Helen Simpson who is luminous and wonderful. While you are at the Sunday Times, treat...
PetinaGappah, February 21, 2010
...pretty exceptional story to appeal to judges as diverse as AS Byatt, Nick Hornby, Lynn Barber, Andrew Holgate, Hanif Kureishi and Lord Matthew Evans ... My money is on Helen Simpson who is luminous and wonderful. While you are at the Sunday Times, treat...
Global Wire, January 3, 2010
...How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel Something to Tell You: A Novel by Hanif Kureishi The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi (For old time's sake!) Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith Rasta and Resistance: From...
Watch Cable Satellite TV on Your PC or Laptop for, November 1, 2009
...and learns the potential disaster if this formula was in the wrong hands. 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 disassociated from his...
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...
