Yasmin kureishi the last word
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'Keep me out of your novels': Hanif Kureishi's sister has had enough
So there is a new novel out by my brother called Something to Tell You. I was, of course, relieved to learn from a recent review that the central character's sister wasn't based on me, but appears to be another family member. There is quite a bevy of us now – my mother and father in The Buddha of Suburbia; Uncle Omar, portrayed as an alcoholic in a bedsit in My Beautiful Laundrette, then lauded in Hanif's memoir, My Ear at his Heart; an ex-girlfriend, Sally, who renamed his film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as "Hanif Gets Paid, Sally gets Exploited". A semi-autobiographical novel, Intimacy () centred around a man leaving his wife and kids for a younger woman. Tracey Scoffield, his ex-partner ("the wife") was not impressed. She stated that the book wasn't a novel: "You may as well call it a fish." There are probably many more
And then there is me Ouch! The sister, Paula, in the film The Mother () – a particularly spit
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Something Hanif forget to tell you?
An intriguingly grumpy piece appeared in the Independent a few days ago by Hanif Kureishi's sister, Yasmin Kureishi, to coincide with the publication of his new book, Something to Tell You. It ranges widely across Kureishi's career to date, and is in essence a litany of the plagiarisms from life Hanif's works have committed—from putting his parents into The Buddha of Suburbia to "a particularly spiteful portrait" of Yasmin herself in the film The Mother. She concludes:
I would have liked not to have written this [article], to be able to get on in my own way with my own life, but I know the insults, the remarks, will keep coming. I don't want to be seen as "good" in the preachy sense. I do believe that writers should be able to take from their experiences. But I don't think they should use their "art" to be malicious, or to settle scores, or to rewrite history without any regard for others. That is simply an abuse of privilege.How f
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Hanif Kureishi
This article is about the British playwright and screenwriter. For the Indian street art artist and designer, see Hanif Kureshi.
English writer (born )
Hanif Kureishi CBE (born 5 December ) 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
[edit]Hanif Kureishi was born on 5 månad [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 [5] Rafiushan's father was a colonel and doctor in the British Indian Army. Rafiushan went to the same Cathedral School attended by Salman Rushdie, and the family were later close to the Bhuttos. Rafiushan's brother (Hanif's uncle), Omar