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Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi grew up in Kent and studied philosophy at King’s College London. He was chosen as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. His novels include The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the 1990 Whitbread Award for First Novel, The Black Album, Intimacy and The Last Word. He has been appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His next book, What Happened?, a collection of essays and stories, is published in 2019.

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Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

The Premonitions Man

Hanif Kureishi

‘The man died as Arnold predicted. It kept happening, and it was disconcerting, terrifying, like being possessed or going mad.’

A new story by Hanif Kureishi.

Fiction | Issue 148
Fiction | Issue 148

The Billionaire Comes To Supper

Hanif Kureishi

A new short story from Hanif Kureishi.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 146
Essays & Memoir | Issue 146

Two Keiths and the Wrong Piano

Hanif Kureishi

‘My response to the music had reminded me that concealed inside myself was a more excitable and open self raring to get out.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

J.G. Ballard

Various Contributors

‘The warmest companion with the coldest vision of where Humanity might head.’

Fiction | Issue 69 padlock
Fiction | Issue 69 padlock

Goodbye, Mother

Hanif Kureishi

‘If you think the living are difficult to deal with, the dead can be worse‘.

Fiction | Issue 100
Fiction | Issue 100

Something to Tell You

Hanif Kureishi

‘I’d have dumped her if it wouldn’t have caused more problems than it solved.’

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Fiction | Issue 65 padlock

The Umbrella

Hanif Kureishi

‘If there were a thousand umbrellas there I would not give you one.’

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Fiction | Issue 56 padlock

In a Blue Time

Hanif Kureishi

‘When the phone rings, who do you most want it to be?’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 43 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 43 padlock

Eight Arms to Hold You

Hanif Kureishi

‘One day at school–an all-boys comprehensive on the border between London and Kent–our music teacher told us that John Lennon and Paul McCartney didn't actually write those famous Beatles songs we loved so much.'

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 39 padlock

Wild Women, Wild Men

Hanif Kureishi

‘When I saw them waiting beside their car, I said, ‘You must be freezing.’ It was cold and foggy, the first night of winter, and the two women had matching short skirts and skimpy tops; their legs were bare.’

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Fiction | Issue 22 padlock

With Your Tongue Down My Throat

Hanif Kureishi

‘“Your father had a wife in India,” Ma says, wincing every time she says father.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 22 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 22 padlock

Film Diary

Hanif Kureishi

‘I shove the script of Sammy and Rosie Get Laid through Stephen Frears's letter box and run. He rings a few hours later: “This isn't an innocent act!”’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 20 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 20 padlock

Bradford

Hanif Kureishi

‘Bradford, I felt, was a place I had to see for myself, because it seemed that so many important issues, of race, culture, nationalism, and education, were evident in an extremely concentrated way.’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 17 padlock

Erotic Politicians and Mullahs

Hanif Kureishi

‘Strangely, anti-British remarks made me feel patriotic, though I only felt patriotic when I was away from England.’

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