Hanif Kureishi (born December 5, 1954 in London), is a Pakistani-British playwright, author, and director on topics of race, nationalism, immigration, and sexuality. He is married and has three sons.

His most famous work is My Beautiful Laundrette, a screenplay about a gay Pakistani-British boy growing up in 1980's London for a film directed by Stephen Frears. It won the New York Film Critics Best Screenplay Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay.

His book The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel, and was also made into a BBC television series with a soundtrack by David Bowie.

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Conference 17th British Novelists Seminar-Hanif Kureishi http://www.fle.metu.edu.tr/hanif_kureishi/ELLConf.htm
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