Hanif Kureishi

Rights, Writer

Agent

Stephen Durbridge
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Film

TO SIR WITH LOVE (Rainmark Films) Current
Screenplay based on the E.R. Braithwaite novel
Set to star Chiwetel Ejiofor

LE WEEKEND (Free Range Films) 2013
Starring Jeff Goldblum, Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and directed by Roger Michell

VENUS (Free Range Films) 2007
Starring Peter O’Toole and Lesley Philips
O’Toole was nominated for both Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Actor

THE MOTHER (Free Range Films/BBC Films) 2002
Won the European Cinema Award at Cannes in 2003

MY SON THE FANATIC (BBC Films) 1998
A feature film adapted from Hanif’s short story
Starring Om Puri and Rachel Griffiths
Directed by Udayan Prasad

LONDON KILLS ME (Working Title Films) 1991
Written and directed by Hanif Kureishi

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUDERETTE (Film Four) 1986
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis
Directed by Stephen Frears
Won the Evening Standard Award for Best Film and the New York Critics Best Screenplay Award
Nominated for the BAFTA Best Screenplay and for the Oscar for Best Screenplay


Television

THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA (BBC) 1993
Hanif wrote the screenplay together with Roger Michell based on his Whitbread Award winning novel of the same title which received critical acclaim

Theatre

THE BLACK ALBUM (The National Theatre) 2009

SLEEP WITH ME (Royal National Theatre) 1999

BORDERLINE (Joint Stock Company/Royal Court Theatre) 1981
Won Hanif both the Thames Television Bursary and Drama Magazine’s Award for Most Promising New Playwright

OUTSKIRTS (Royal Court Theatre) 1981
Won the George Devine Award whilst he was Writer-in-Residence at the Royal Court

Books

THE LAST WORD (Faber and Faber) 2014

SOMETHING TO TELL YOU (Faber and Faber) 2008

THE BODY (Faber and Faber) 2003

GABRIEL’S GIFT (Faber and Faber) 2001

INTIMACY (Faber and Faber) 1998

THE BLACK ALBUM (Faber and Faber) 1995

THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA (Faber and Faber) 1990

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