Yasmin kureishi the last word

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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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

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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

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Author&#;s Sister Writes Next Chapter in Kureishi Family Feud

The recent publication of Hanif Kureishi's new novel, Something to Tell You, by Faber and Faber has garnered the usual praise from critics in the U.K., but it's also attracted the ire of his sister, Yasmin, who says she wishes the author would stop using their family as inspiration for his fiction. The novel, which will be published in the United States by Scribner in August, focuses on Jamal, a successful, middle-aged psychoanalyst who looks back on his life.

In an article published in the Independent in London last week, Yasmin Kureishi ran down a list of the family members who have provided the basis for the Booker Prize-winning author's characters: their mother and father in The Buddha of Suburbia (Viking, ), their uncle in My Beautiful Laundrette (Faber and Faber, ), and herself in the author's screenplay for The Mother (), which she referred to as "a particularly spiteful portrayal, via an amazingly i