Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi is a writer I hold in deep regard for the unflinching honesty he brought to British identity. Through My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia, he dissected race, class and belonging with humor and bruising candor long before such voices were welcomed in the mainstream. What moves me most is his recent resilience: after a catastrophic injury robbed him of physical freedom, he kept writing, turning pain into language. A CBE and an acclaimed dramatist, he never lost the common, human warmth in his prose. Few artists transmute suffering into art with such grace.

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Name (English)

Hanif Kureishi

Name (Japanese)

ハニフ・クレイシ

Reading

はにふ・くれいし

Born

December 5, 1954 (age 71)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

playwright / writer / novelist / screenwriter / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Horse

University

King's College London

Awards & achievements

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 2010 PEN Pinter Prize
• 1986 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay
• 2008 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

• Official sitehttps://www.hanifkureishi.com
• Xhttps://x.com/Hanifkureishi
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanif%20Kureishi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%8B%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325936

Tags

• playwright
• writer
• novelist

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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