Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography by Ranasinha, Ruvani
Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography by Ranasinha, Ruvani

Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography

Original, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain's most popular, provocative and versatile writers.Born...
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Author: Ruvani Ranasinha
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Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography by Ranasinha, Ruvani

Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography

$91.56
Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography by Ranasinha, Ruvani

Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography

$91.56
Author: Ruvani Ranasinha
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Original, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain's most popular, provocative and versatile writers.


Born in Bromley in 1954 to an Indian father and white British mother, Kureishi's life is intimately bound up with the history of immigration and social change in Britain. This is the story of how a mixed-raced child of empire who attended the local comprehensive school found success with a remarkable series of novels and screenplays, including My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia, Intimacy, Venus and Le Week-End. The book also illuminates a larger story, not only of the artist as a young man, but of the recasting of Britain in the aftermath of decolonisation.


Drawing on journals, letters and manuscripts from Kureishi's unexplored archive, recently acquired by the British Library, and informed by interviews with his family, friends and collaborators, as well with the writer himself, Ruvani Ranasinha sheds new light on how his life animates his work. This first biography offers a vivid portrait of a major talent who has inspired a new generation of writers.



Author: Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 912
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781526147394

About the Author
Ruvani Ranasinha is Professor of Global Literature at King's College London. She is the author of Hanif Kureishi: Writers and their Works (2002), South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain: Culture in Translation (OUP 2007) and Contemporary South Asian Women's Fiction: Gender, Narration and Globalisation (2016), lead editor of South Asians and the Shaping of Britain: A Sourcebook (MUP 2012) and co-editor (with Alex Tickell) of Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity (Routledge 2020). Born in Sri Lanka, her parents migrated to Britain when she was one year old. She grew up in Epsom in Surrey and read English Literature at the University of Bristol and received her PhD from the University of Oxford. She lives in west London with her husband, daughter and son.
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