Kureishi, Hanif (1954– )

English dramatist, film-maker, and novelist. Much of his work explores the interaction of Asian and Anglo communities living in the UK. He wrote screenplays for the films My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), both directed by Stephen Frears. His novel The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) won the Whitbread Award for best first novel, and was adapted for the screen in a popular television miniseries in 1993.

Early plays include Outskirts (1981) and Birds of Passage (1983). He wrote and directed the film London Kills Me (1991). His later works include the novels The Black Album (1995), Intimacy (1998), Midnight All Day (1999), Gabriel's Gift (2001), The Body (2003). and Something to Tell You (2008), and the screenplays My Son the Fanatic (1997), The Mother (2003), and Venus (2006), which garnered major acclaim for its star, Peter O'Toole.