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Hanif Kureishi was born on December 5, in London, England. Kureishi is half-Pakistani (on his paternal side) and half-British (on his maternal side). His father was from an upper-class family that migrated to Pakistan following the Partition of British India in Kureishi's parents met while working at the Pakistani embassy. Kureishi was raised in Bromley, a neighborhood in southeast London. After high school, Kureishi went on to study at Bromley College of Technology. He has stated that some of the characters in The Buddha of Suburbiawere inspired by individuals he encountered during his time at college. He later went on to complete his studies at the University of Lancaster and at Kings College, London.
Kureishi began his career as a pornography writer in the s. He also worked as a playwright and wrote for esteemed theater companies in London. In , he gained recognition for his feature-film screenplay, My Beautiful Laundrette. For his work, Kureishi was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. He has published nine novels to date—his first being The Buddha of Suburbia () and his mo
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From Spectator magazine issue: 13 January pages
Hanif Kureishi – portrait of the artist as a young man
Descriptions of the gifted author tearing up the literary landscape of the late 20th century are deeply poignant when set alongside Kureishi’s recent despatches from hospital.
Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self, A Biography
Ruvani Ranasinha
Manchester University Press, pp. , £30
If any novelist, playwright or screenwriter of the past 40 years could be called ‘a writer of consequence’, to use the literary agent Andrew Wylie’s term, it would be Hanif Kureishi. While not shifting units on the scale of his near contemporaries Ian McEwan,
“From the start I tried to deny my Pakistani self . . . it was a curse
and I wanted to be rid of it. I wanted to be like everyone else.”
&#; Kureishi, “The Rainbow Sign”
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Born December 5, in Bromley, England, to an Indian father and an English mother, Hanif Kureishi grew up experiencing first-hand the racial and cultural clashes that he addresses in most of his work. The inspiration for his work has been drawn from his own life’s trials and tribulations as a culturally hybrid individual of two different races and cultures. Kureishi decided that he wanted to be a writer from a young age, and began writing novels that were considered for publication while he was still a teenager.
He studied philosophy at King’s College, University of London, and then supported himself by writing pornography under the pseudonym Antonia French. After a humble beginning as an usher for the Royal Theater, Kureishi later became the theater’s writer in residence. His first play, Soaking Up the Heat, was produced in at London’s Theater Upstairs. His second play, The Mother Country, won the Thames Television Playwright Award in His breakthrough came with his first play for the Royal C
Mufti Hanif Qureshi is Shabab-e-Islami&#;s founder and an emerging star of &#;Ahle-Sunnat Waljammat.&#; He is an educated personality, and currently, he is serving as Mudarris in &#;Jamia Rizwia Zia-ul-Uloom&#; in Rawalpindi. He can convince the people belonging to another sect by presenting his logic with the Quran and Hades&#; help.
In a memorable fablan held in Rawalpindi, he convinced his opponent with his sense and became the winner of that fablan. This article contains all the information about him, including Mufti Hanif Qureshi Biography.
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Name: | Mufti Hanif Qureshi |
| In Urdu: | مفتی حنیف قریشی |
| Famous As: | Religious Scholar |
| Titles: | Qatai Najdiyat, Shamsher-E-Ala Hazrat, Kanz-Ud-Dalail, Shere-Ahlesunnat |
| Nationality: | Pakistani |
| Residence: | Rawalpindi |
| Religion: | Islam |
| Profession: | Leader Shabab-e Islami Pakistan |
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| Gmail: | [email&#;protected] |
| Family | |
| Children: | Asim Qureshi, Dawood Qureshi, Ghufaran Qureshi, Zahid Qureshi, Qasim Qureshi |
| Parents: | M. Nazeer Qureshi |
| Siblings : | Rafeeq Qureshi, Shafiq Qureshi |
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