Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi is a British playwright, screenwriter and novelist, best known for the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), which earned him Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, and for his novel The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), later adapted into a four-part BBC drama. After a spinal injury in 2022, he wrote the memoir Shattered (2024), a candid account of disability, ageing and writing after the accident, which was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.