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Hanif Kureishi

HANIF KUREISHI

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd  

Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King's College, London. He is the author of numerous novels, short story collections, screenplays and plays. In 1984 he wrote My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. His second film, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, was followed by London Kills Me, 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. His second novel, the Black album, was published in 1995 and his first collection of short stories, Love in a Blue Time, was published in 1997. My Son the Fanatic, a story from that collection, was adapted for film and released in 1998. Intimacy, his third novel, was published in 1998, and was adapted for film in 2001. a second collection of short stories, Midnight all Day, was published in 2000, followed in 2001 by his fourth novel Gabriel's Gift.

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         Artists And Admirers         Birds Of Passage         Black Album, The         Borderline         Cinders         Intimacy         King And Me, The         London Kills Me         Mother Country, The         Mother Courage And Her Children         My Beautiful Laundrette         Outskirts         Sleep With Me         Soaking the Heat         Tomorrow - Today!         When the Night Begins

Artists And Admirers

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Original Playwright - Alexander Ostrovsky; Written in collaboration with David Leveaux

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Birds Of Passage

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Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1983   -

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Black Album, The

Synopsis:
an Asian kid from Kent goes to college in London and teams up with a sympathetic group of anti-racists. But it's 1989, the year of the fatwa, and as Shahid begins a hedonistic affair with his lecturer, his radical Muslim friends want to steer him away from the decadence of the West.

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Hanif Kureishi's stage Adaptation of his novel humorously considers how the events of 1989 have shaped today's world, where fundamentalism battles liberalism

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National Theatre and Tara Arts

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2009   978-0571251322

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Borderline

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Joint Stock

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Cinders

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Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki

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London    1981

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Intimacy

Synopsis:
It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.'Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. as the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time together he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person.

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First seen At the Bull theatre, Barnet, 24 Jul 2002

1st Produced:
Bull Theatre, Barnet    2002

Organisations:
Guy Masterton, TTI and Wisepart Productions

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1999   -

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King And Me, The

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Soho Poly, London    1980

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Calder & Boyers, London, 1983   -

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London Kills Me

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Faber and Faber, London, 1991   -

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Film Script

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Mother Country, The

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London    1980

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Mother Courage And Her Children

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Period 1630's, Mother Courage follows the Swedish armies through the terrible Thirty Years War with her mobile canteen and three children, each by a different man

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

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Samuel French, London,    -

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  19            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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My Beautiful Laundrette

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Faber and Faber, London, 1986   -

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Film Script. - - Gay/Lesbian, film/TV scripts

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Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Outskirts

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1st Produced:
Warehouse, Covent Garden, London    28 Apr 1981

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RSC

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Calder & Boyers, London, 1983   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
RSC ref OUT198104

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Sleep With Me

Synopsis:
Set over the course of a summer weekend in the country, Sleep With Me is a fast-moving, tragi-comic satire, exposing the emotionally and sexually chaotic lives of a group of friends. 'they're all coming apart . . . attacking one another . . . affairs and heartbreak - most of the people I know. No one knows how to make themselves or anyone else happy. Marriage hardly seems worth the trouble.'

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Faber and Faber, London, 1999   -

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Soaking the Heat

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Sunday Night, Royal Court, London    1976

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Tomorrow - Today!

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London    1981

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Calder & Boyers, London, 1983   -

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When the Night Begins

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Jane, recently widowed, wealthy, and determined to avenge her brutal upbringing, returns to confront her abusive step-father. Isolated in a room above the city, their disturbing, sexually charged encounter heads inexorably towards violence as they struggle to come to terms with their different versions of the past in this harrowing thriller.

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Faber and Faber, London, 2004   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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