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There is no greater joy than reading a good book. Well, maybe there is, but reading has always been one of my favourite passtimes - or maybe even a little more than just a passtime. I am a reading addict, ladies and gents.
This is the second blog entry in this little series, authors I like reading. I hope to find the time to do some more, and would love to hear from you if you have read a book by the author I am introducing. What did you like about it? Would you recommend it to others?
~Nina
Worthwhile reading – Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi, son of a Pakistani father and an English mother, was born in Bromley, Kent in 1954. He read philosophy at King's College, London. His career as a writer started in the '70s, when he wrote, among other things, pornography.
His first play, Soaking the Heat, was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1976 and was followed in 1980 by The Mother Country. In 1982 he became Writer in Residence at the Royal Court Theatre. His final breakthrough as a writer came with the screenplay for the award-winning movie My beautiful laundrette in 1985.
His first (autobiographical) novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel in 1990.
His second novel, The Black Album (1995), explores some of the issues facing the Muslim community living in Britain in the 1980s. Love in a Blue Time, his first collection of short stories, focuses on a series of characters working in the media.
His latest novel is Something to tell you (2008).
In 2009, his own stage adaptation of his novel The Black Album (2009), premiered at the National Theatre. He became a CBE in 2007, in recognition of his services to literature and drama.
Homepage*: http://www.hanifkureishi.com/
*with previously unpublished short stories for online reading
Bibliographie:
Borderline Methuen, 1981
Birds of Passage Amber Lane Press, 1983
Outskirts and Other Plays Calder, 1983
My Beautiful Laundrette Faber and Faber, 1986
Buddha of Suburbia Faber and Faber, 1990
London Kills Me: Screenplay Faber and Faber, 1991
The Black Album Faber and Faber, 1995
The Faber Book of Pop (editor with Jon Savage) Faber and Faber, 1996
Love in a Blue Time Faber and Faber, 1997
Intimacy Faber and Faber, 1998
My Son, the Fanatic (screenplay) Faber and Faber, 1998
Midnight All Day Faber and Faber, 1999
Sleep with Me Faber and Faber, 1999
Gabriel's Gift Faber and Faber, 2001
Dreaming and Scheming: Reflections on Writing and Politics Faber and Faber, 2002
The Body and Other Stories Faber and Faber, 2002
The Mother Faber and Faber, 2003
My Ear at His Heart Faber and Faber, 2004
When The Night Begins Faber and Faber, 2004
The Word and the Bomb Faber and Faber, 2005
Venus Faber and Faber, 2007
Something to Tell You Faber and Faber, 2008
The Black Album (play) Faber and Faber, 2009
and, with other authors: Ox-tales: Earth (2009)
Filmographie:
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
London Kills Me* (1991)
The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), TV miniseries
My Son the Fanatic (1997)
Mauvaise Passe/The Escort/The Wrong Blonde (1999)
The God of Small Tales (2003), short
The Mother (2003)
Venus (2006)
Weddings and Beheadings (2007)
*also director
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanif_Kureishi
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth57
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