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Hanif Kureishi
This article is about the British playwright and screenwriter.
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English writer (born 1954)
Hanif Kureishi CBE (born 5 December 1954) is a British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and novelist.
He is known for his film My Beautiful Laundrette and novel The Buddha of Suburbia.
Early life and education
Kureishi was born on 5 December 1954[1] in Bromley, South London to a Pakistani father, Rafiushan (Shanoo) Kureishi, and an English mother, Audrey Buss.[2][3][4] His father was from a wealthy family based in Madras (now Chennai), whose members moved to Pakistan after the Partition of India in 1947.[5]
Rafiushan travelled to the UK in 1950[6] to study law, but he ran out of money and needed to take a desk job at the Pakistani high commission instead.[3][4] There he met his wife-to-be, Audrey Buss,