Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi CBE is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. His screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette was nominated for an Academy Award and his book The Buddha of Suburbia won the 1990 Whitbread Award for best novel. His 2006 screenplay Venus received Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations and in 2008 he was appointed CBE. His latest book Something To Tell You – “a vital, teeming, panoramic, immersive novel” (Time Out) – was published last year.
Hanif Kureishi lives in London and has written six novels, three works of non-fiction and nine plays and screenplays. His new novel, Something to Tell You, has received critical acclaim as Kureishi again explores the themes of sex, love and religion that have been at the heart of his most celebrated works.
Something to Tell You is described by the Guardian as a “return to the 1970s, and the territory of his enduringly lovable The Buddha of Suburbia… His narrator is an analyst looking back on the violence, confusion and first love of his youth, while deeply engaged in contemporary politics and culture: Kureishi’s London landscape is a vivid kaleidoscope of larger-than-life characters.”
The Financial Times was also full of praise: “Hanif Kureishi has written a subtle and strikingly topical novel… [his] skilful anatomisation of how it feels to be an atheist Muslim in contemporary England punctures many a stereotype… Something to Tell You has much to tell us, and does it extraordinarily well.” Meanwhile, the Independent said: “Kureishi – a great comic writer, and a peerless connoisseur of the human mystery… delivers a prose, and a perspective, that throbs with unruly life.”
“There is more that is worth thinking about in Hanif Kureishi’s new book than in the work of almost any other current British novelist.”
The Evening Standard
Links:
- Full profile on Contemporary Writers
- Interview in The Telegraph, with the option to listen to Hanif reading an extract from Something To Tell You
Video:
Hanif Kureishi on The Book Show (Sky Arts)
