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In 1981 Hanif Kureishi was voted Most Promising Playwright of the Year by the London Theatre Critics for his plays Borderline and Outskirts. Since then he has gone on to write best-selling fiction (The Buddha of Suburbia, Intimacy) and acclaimed screenplays (My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay, and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid).
This selection of his original works shows his development as a writer, finding his own subject and establishing his characteristically powerful and humorous style. In his extended and witty introduction, Kureishi looks at his work in the theatre at that time, while assessing the significance of radical British theatre during the 1970s.
About the author
Hanif Kureishi, geb. 1954 als Sohn einer Engländerin und eines Pakistani in London, wurde mit seinem Drehbuch für Stephen Frears' Film 'Mein wunderbarer Waschsalon' 1985 international bekannt . 1998 schrieb er das Drehbuch zu Patrice Chéreaus Film 'Intimacy', der bei den Berliner Festspielen 2001 den Goldenen Bären gewann. Für sein Romandebüt erhielt er 1990 den Whitbread Prize. Hanif Kureishi ist Verfasser zahlreicher Drehbücher, Erzählbände und Romane.
Summary
In 1981 Hanif Kureishi was voted Most Promising Playwright of the Year by the London Theatre Critics for his plays Borderline and Outskirts. In his extended and witty introduction, Kureishi looks at his work in the theatre at that time, while assessing the significance of radical British theatre during the 1970s.
Foreword
Hanif Kureishi Plays 1 includes King and Me, Outskirts, Borderline and Birds of Passage.
