Hanif Kureishi

Andrew Malkinson, wrongly convicted of rape, to guest edit BBC’s Today
Miscarriage of justice victim will be among programme’s Christmas editors which also include Hanif Kureishi and James May
Amelia Hill
23, Nov, 2023 @10:49 AM

Hanif Kureishi to publish memoir about accident that left him paralysed
Shattered, out in 2024, will expand on the material the Buddha of Suburbia author has been sharing on social media from his hospital bed since a fall in Rome last year
Lucy Knight
18, Apr, 2023 @11:05 AM

Taking drugs with your children? Gen Z won’t even want to share a beer with us | Zoe Williams
Hanif Kureishi talks of cocaine nights with his kids. He makes the whole issue sound simple. I can’t believe it is, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
Zoe Williams
24, Mar, 2023 @7:00 AM

Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing
The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer
Lara Feigel
31, Jan, 2023 @4:30 PM

Hanif Kureishi helped liberate British Asians from their imposed identities | Kenan Malik
The writer, who is stricken in hospital after an accident, gave us real characters, not stereotypes
Kenan Malik
22, Jan, 2023 @8:00 AM

Hanif Kureishi says he may never be able to walk or hold pen again after fall in Rome
Novelist and screenwriter says he is unable to move arms and legs and has undergone spinal surgery
Lucy Knight
06, Jan, 2023 @6:09 PM

British Library to host Salman Rushdie celebration event
Writers including Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nigella Lawson will gather in London to share readings and reflections two months after the author was attacked on stage
Sarah Shaffi
10, Oct, 2022 @1:27 PM

Diana makes explosive revelations and Partridge devours the hand that feeds him: 100 years of the BBC, part eight
Steve Coogan’s alter-ego appears, as does Ricky Gervais’s in The Office, while Panorama rocks the royals
Mark Lawson
05, Oct, 2022 @2:00 PM

Stephen Thompson obituary
Screenwriter and novelist who won a Bafta for his BBC drama, Sitting in Limbo, about his brother’s experiences of being threatened with deportation
Ryan Gilbey
12, Jun, 2022 @4:26 PM

Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years
The author of On the Road had a messy, contradictory life. Yet he’s as relevant as ever – and not just for obsessed young men
David Barnett
13, Mar, 2022 @7:45 AM

‘Good times? I was out of it’: The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews on booze, drugs and baffling the world in Lost
He found fame in The English Patient before becoming a huge TV star. Now he is tackling the Theranos fraud scandal. But addiction in the 90s nearly cost him everything
Steve Rose
07, Mar, 2022 @6:00 AM

Hanif Kureishi: ‘I’d like to see a British Muslim Sopranos’
As his new play The Spank opens in Italy, the writer talks about the power of ludicrous ideas, the crisis facing the middle class – and why he can’t get white liberals off his phone
Arifa Akbar
20, May, 2021 @5:00 AM
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