Week three: Race ahead Feb 2, 2008
Hanif Kureishi discusses the social influences on The Buddha of Suburbia ... Hanif Kureishi will be talking to John Mullan on Monday January 28 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Stiff competition for Scottish novel prize Jan 22, 2008
Now in its third year, the festival takes place in the city's Mitchell Library and features over 200 authors, including Hanif Kureishi, Louis de Bernires, Tony Parsons, Joanne Harris, Blake Morrison and Hollywood star Kathleen Turner. Guardian Unlimited. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Ease of reference Jan 19, 2008
John Mullan on the use of cultural references in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia ... Hanif Kureishi's narrator, Karim Amir, fills his narrative of teenage misadventure with allusions to music and films and books ... There will be a discussion with Hanif Kureishi on Monday January 28 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The final reckoning Jan 14, 2008
Michael Frayn, Hanif Kureishi, David Hare and Salman Rushdie have signed one; the other bears the names of up to 50 emerging playwrights who do not want to see the Bush forced to scale down its commitment to new writing. With two full-time members of staff dedicated to wading through the 1,500 unsolicited manuscripts the theatre receives every year, the Bush is one of the few theatres in the country where young, aspiring playwrights can hope to see their writing reach the stage. (Guardian Unlimited)
That tone of voice Jan 12, 2008
John Mullan on the rebellious narrative voice of Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia ... Join him and Hanif Kureishi for a discussion on January 28 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
2008 will be 007's year Dec 31, 2007
In Something to Tell You (Faber, March) by Hanif Kureishi, a successful psychoanalyst reflects on his initiation into the excesses of Seventies London, a period of sexual licence and political strife that Kureishi claimed as his own with The Buddha of Suburbia, his first novel, in 1990. An exuberant and engaging novel, it reflects seriously on whether the past can ever be laid to rest. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Rise of KureishiHow the author, now a CBE, went from writing porn to penning novels Dec 30, 2007
Honour for author Hanif Kureishi ... Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi has been appointed a CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours List. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
From student rag to literary riches Dec 30, 2007
And then there is a more recent one, number 80, with writers looking at old photographs and remembering old friends, and Granta 65, with Hanif Kureishi and Ian Parker writing knowingly and enticingly about London ... This list was repeated a decade later in 1993 (Alan Hollinghurst, Hanif Kureishi and Esther Freud) and 2003 (Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker and David Mitchell), and worked for young American writers as well ... When Hanif Kureishi met Buford in the mid-Eighties after the success of My... (Guardian Unlimited)
Minogue tops showbiz honours list Dec 29, 2007
Former director of the Proms concerts Nicholas Kenyon is knighted, while while playwright and author Hanif Kureishi - best known for his 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia - becomes a CBE.. Julie Walters is renowned for playing character roles. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Honours for Jacqueline Wilson, Hanif Kureishi and Eric Hill Dec 29, 2007
Wilson is joined on this year's honours list by the novelist, playwright and short story writer Hanif Kureishi, who receives a CBE for services to literature and drama. Best-known for his first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, and his screenplay about a gay Pakistani-British boy growing up in 1980s London, My Beautiful Launderette, the announcement marks a positive end to a year of mixed fortunes for Kureishi. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Escaping into the future Dec 29, 2007
Hanif Kureishi also returns to the 70s, and the territory of his enduringly lovable The Buddha of Suburbia, with a much-tipped new novel, Something to Tell You (Faber, March). His narrator is an analyst looking back on the violence, confusion and first love of his youth, while deeply engaged in contemporary politics and culture: Kureishi's London landscape is a vivid kaleidoscope of larger-than-life characters. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
An OBE for Kylie - and arise, Sir Parky Dec 29, 2007
Brendan Foster, founder of the Great North Run and Olympic medallist, becomes a CBE, as do the veteran actor Leslie Phillips and Julie Walters, who is working on a big-screen adaptation of the hit musical Mamma Mia, the novelist Hanif Kureishi and jazz pianist Stan Tracey. In science, Dolly the Sheep's creator, Ian Wilmut, will be knighted for "revolutionising" biology through the cloning technique. (Guardian Unlimited)
That's the best thing we've read all year Nov 25, 2007
Also in this section. Harry Potter's finale, the lives of Stalin, Brian Clough and Graham Greene, Ted Hughes's letters, a history of teenagers and not forgetting a tome on Welsh furniture. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Books special Nov 25, 2007
Also in this section. That's the best thing we've read all year. (Guardian Unlimited)
Monica Ali: The outrage economy Oct 29, 2007
The result is what Hanif Kureishi has described in a recent essay as a curious kind of "literary apartheid". The third issue, which is tucked away between the lines, concerns gender. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Working Title back in Oscar race Oct 13, 2007
Since 1986's "My Beautiful Laundrette," which earned a writing nom for Hanif Kureishi, Working Title has earned 38 Oscar nominations and four wins: best actress for Susan Sarandon for "Dead Man Walking" and Frances McDormand for "Fargo," which also scored for original screenplay, and a makeup prize for "Elizabeth.". In many ways Working Title is the house that Richard Curtis built. (Variety)
Author Ken Follett follows through to 'End' Oct 9, 2007
One, he says, is his friend Hanif Kureishi, the successful novelist and playwright who wrote the screenplay for the film My Beautiful Laundrette. "We were talking about what the readers like," Follett says. (USA Today)
Thompson on Hollywood Jun 28, 2007
VENUS Written by: Hanif Kureishi (Miramax Films) When Ian's sullen and cheeky grandniece shows up, Maurice is captivated by her youth and her dour charm and shows her around London, making him aware of his loneliness and old age. Cited "for its insistence on human dignity and emotional honesty when faced with the painful humiliations and deprivations that can come with aging.". (Variety)
M*A*S*H screenwriter Gelbart is honored Jun 27, 2007
Richard LaGravenese won for his urban classroom film drama Freedom Writers, about a teacher who inspires kids to write, and Hanif Kureishi won for the film Venus, in which an aging actor fosters a relationship with a younger woman. They each won $25,000. (MSNBC -- News)
New on DVD: O'Toole provides pulse for 'Venus' Jun 1, 2007
If you buy their mutually beneficial relationship, you may buy the movie, which overall is a lesser accomplishment than other films from Hanif Kureishi scripts: My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and My Son the Fanatic. Big Jim McLain (* *1/2, 1952, Warner, unrated, $13): Tied with Red Planet Mars as the most ludicrous Red Scare movie, this trash classic has John Wayne and James Arness bloodying commies in Hawaii, while Hans Conried provides comic relief. (USA Today -- Life)
'Tipperary Star Wars' wins National Short Story prize Apr 24, 2007
The three remaining shortlisted authors - Jonathan Falla, Jackie Kay, and Hanif Kureishi - will receive 500 each. Funded by Nesta (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), the prize is supported by BBC Radio 4 - which broadcasts each of the shortlisted stories - and its founder, Prospect Magazine. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Kureishi accuses BBC of censorship Apr 20, 2007
The author Hanif Kureishi today accused the BBC of giving in to terrorism for the corporation s decision not to broadcast its reading of a short story about the killing of a hostage. The BBC said that it had chosen to postpone the reading of Hanif Kureishi s Weddings and Beheadings because the timing was inappropriate. (Times Online)
- Mark Lawson Apr 20, 2007
So when, last week, I was part of a panel which placed Hanif Kureishi on a shortlist of five authors competing for the 15,000 Radio 4/Prospect short-story prize, it should have been no shock that, this week, the BBC decided his entry could not be broadcast. The corporation felt that the transmission of Weddings and Beheadings - which is told from the perspective of a young Middle Eastern film-maker who has ended up operating the camera at al-Qaida executions of western hostages - would be... (Guardian Unlimited)
Nice censorship is still censorship Apr 19, 2007
The BBC's decision to hold back Hanif Kureishi's short story gives the lie to the idea that we're too advanced for censorship ... As Hanif Kureishi (also on the shortlist) might have said, too, had he not been. (Guardian Unlimited)
Radio story delayed for BBC man Apr 18, 2007
Author Hanif Kureishi is nominated for the National Short Story Prize ... The author, Hanif Kureishi, criticised the decision as censorship, saying: "It all seems rather arbitrary". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
BBC cancels short story broadcast Apr 17, 2007
The author Hanif Kureishi accused the BBC of censorship last night, after it dropped a radio broadcast of his short story describing the work of a cameraman who films the executions of western captives in Iraq. Radio 4 cancelled a reading of Weddings and Beheadings, one of five nominations for the National Short Story prize due to be broadcast this week, after concluding the timing "would not be right" following unconfirmed reports that kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston had been... (Guardian Unlimited)
Short story nominees unveiled Apr 14, 2007
Hanif Kureishi is nominated for Weddings and Beheadings, a story about an ambitious cameraman who ends up filming terrorist beheadings. Jackie Kay is nominated for How To Get Away with Suicide and Julian Gough is shortlisted for The Orphan and The Mob. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Finalists announced for short story prize Apr 13, 2007
The shortlist for the world's richest short story prize was announced today with Hanif Kureishi and Jackie Kay heading a list of five contenders. The National Short Story prize, now in its second year, aims to raise the profile of the rather neglected form in the UK with a first prize of 15,000, a runner-up prize of 3,000 and awards of 500 for the rest of the shortlist. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Gordimer Gets French Legion Of Honor Apr 3, 2007
She also edited "Telling Tales," an anthology for AIDS charities, featuring Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Hanif Kureishi and Jose Saramago. Her latest book, "Get a Life," was published in 2006 and "Beethoven Was One Sixteenth Black," a collection of stories, is to be published later this year. (CBS News)
The Namesake Mar 30, 2007
In Britain, by comparison, we've been spoilt by stories dealing with similar issues closer to home, such as East Is East, or Hanif Kureishi adaptations, or Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss - or even Bend It Like Beckham. At times, The Namesake is better than any of these, but there were just as many moments when I found myself wanting to refer to the book to find out what really happened. (Guardian Unlimited)
And the Oscar for best writers goes to... Britain Feb 25, 2007
Whitaker faces competition from Peter O'Toole, star of Venus, the success of which has helped put its screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi, back in the spotlight. Kureishi played down the suggestion that an O'Toole victory would boost his own career. (Guardian Unlimited)
Object of beauty Feb 9, 2007
The script is by the great writer Hanif Kureishi ("My Beautiful Launderette," "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid"), and you can be sure that in this movie's first half, it is festooned with gleaming pearls of dialogue among the swine (sample: Don't flutter the sheets, complains the fussy old gay actor as someone makes his bed, "I'm getting wind rash"). It's about a Bohemian theatrical milieu of bonhomie and mutual amusement; if these people aren't actually on the boards somewhere or playing a corpse in a... (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Heavenly 'Venus' Feb 9, 2007
But director Roger Michell and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi are the ones who've made it possible to embrace O'Toole's risky characterization wholeheartedly and without embarrassment. In Venus they've composed an unsentimental paean to Maurice's kind of male desire: a desire that doesn't quit and lasts a lifetime. (SunSpot.net)
more » Feb 3, 2007
January 18, 2007 By Michael Wilmington, Tribune movie critic Peter O'Toole, still a British cinematic lion at 74, performs another movie miracle in the Roger Michell-Hanif Kureishi film "Venus." ... Directed by Roger Michell; written by Hanif Kureishi; photographed by Haris Zambarloukos; edited by Nicolas Gaster; production designed by John-Paul Kelly; songs by Corinne Bailey Rae ; additional music by Rae, David Arnold; produced by Kevin Loader. (CTNow.com)
The debt to pleasure Jan 27, 2007
Hanif Kureishi explains how the work of the Japanese master inspired him to write the screenplay for Venus. Saturday January 27, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Faces of the week Jan 27, 2007
The edginess of the script by Hanif Kureishi got the O'Toole stamp of approval. "It's a taboo subject. But it does happen.". (BBC News -- UK)
O'Toole's `Venus' is a marvel Jan 26, 2007
It starts with the work of two of Britain's most adroit film professionals, screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and collaborator-director Roger Michell ... Writer Hanif Kureishi. (San Jose Mercury News)
For your consideration Jan 26, 2007
As written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Roger Michell, the movie manages to be creepy, heartbreaking, funny, shallow, and smart. Vanessa Redgrave and Leslie Phillips offer fine support, but it's O'Toole's show all the way. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Odd romance treated with grace in `Venus' Jan 26, 2007
But it's to everyone's credit -- O'Toole; Jodie Whittaker, who stars as the lass in question; director Roger Michell; and writer Hanif Kureishi -- that Venus is anything but smarmy, leering, drooling. Well, perhaps Maurice does smack his lips a bit, but it's his nature: He's been a ladies' man, a Romeo, a cad and a bounder his entire life, and why should a frail 74-year-old body, blighted with a nasty prostate and impotency, change his ways. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
The 79th Academy Awards: Can O'Toole win at last? Jan 24, 2007
Although Hanif Kureishi had already proved deft at writing about love across age barriers in The Mother, there is no doubting that the material could have left a nasty taste in the mouth. Nobody likes a dirty old man. (Independent)
Cheerful rebel Jan 21, 2007
Many think that might happen in the coming weeks, with his performance in Hanif Kureishi and Roger Michell's film Venus. The film, which documents the aged droolings of a thespy lothario over a sulky teenage girl, wasn't written for O'Toole, but it couldn't have survived anyone else. (Guardian Unlimited)
The Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 20, 2007
But it's to everyone's credit - O'Toole; Jodie Whittaker, who stars as the lass in question; director Roger Michell and writer Hanif Kureishi - that "Venus" is anything but smarmy, leering, drooling ... Produced by Ken Loader, directed by Roger Michell, written by Hanif Kureishi, photography by Haris Zambarloukos, music by Corinne Bailey Rae and David Arnold, distributed by Miramax Films. (San Jose Mercury News)
The writer as witness Jan 14, 2007
From 'Laundrette' to 'Venus,' Hanif Kureishi explores British angst ... LONDON -- His next project, Hanif Kureishi is saying, will be a fat, juicy novel about a shrink, chockablock with "all the stuff that I'm interested in -- you know, race, sex, politics, psychoanalysis, literature, TV.". (Boston Globe -- Living)
EW: Utterly awful 'Happily N'Ever After' Jan 7, 2007
Don't bother with "Happily N'Ever After" "Venus" benefits from Peter O'Toole magic "Venus" also has good pedigree -- writer Hanif Kureishi By Gregory Kirschling Entertainment Weekly Adjust font size ... Written by Hanif Kureishi ("My Beautiful Laundrette") and directed by. (CNN -- Showbiz)
