Hanif Kureishi is a playwright, screenwriter, novelist and filmmaker. His work includes the screenplay for the films My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and London Kills Me, which he also directed. His film My Son the Fanatic was adapted from his short story included in Love in a Blue Time. Kureishi's first novel was the semi-autobiographical The Buddha of Suburbia, published in 1990 and produced by the BBC in 1993 as a four-part television series. Subsequent novels and short story collections include The Black Album, Love in a Blue Time, Intimacy, Midnight All Day, and Gabriel's Gift. Dreaming and Scheming: Reflections on Writing and Politics, a collection of Hanif Kureishi's non-fiction, including essays and diary fragments, as well as a new collection of short fiction, The Body and Other Stories, were both published in 2002, followed by The Word and the Bomb. His play Venus was released as a film with Peter O'Toole. The broadcast of his short story Weddings and Beheadings was cancelled by the BBC. His new novel is Something to Tell You.
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