Winner of the Whitbread award for best first novel in 1990,
The
Buddha of Suburbia crash landed Hanif Kureishi into the literary landscape as a distinct and fearless new voice. Three years later, it was adapted into a ground-breaking BBC series featuring an original David Bowie soundtrack.
His works since include the novels
The Black Album,
Intimacy and
Something To Tell You, and a number of acclaimed short story collections
. His screenplays include
My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay,
My Son the Fanatic and
The Mother. He has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and his works have been translated into thirty-nine languages.
Shattered, Kureishi's much anticipated memoir, will be published in Autumn 2024.
