Gabriel'S Gift

Biographie de Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King's College, London. In 1981 he won the George Devine Award for his play Outskirts, and in 1982 he was appointed writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre. In 1984 he wrote My Beautiful Launderette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. His second screenplay, Sammie and Rosie Get Laid (1987), was followed by London Kills Me (1991), which he also directed. The Buddha of Suburbia won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel in 1990 and was made into a four-part drama series by the BBC in 1993. His version of Brecht's Mother Courage has been produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. His second novel, The Black Album, was published in 1995. With Jon Savage he edited The Faber Book of Pop (1995). His first collection of short stories, Love in a Blue Time, was published in 1997. His story My Son the Fanatic, from that collection, was adapted for film and released in 1998. Intimacy, his third novel, was published in 1999. His second collection of stories, Midnight All Day, was published in 2000.