Jude Cook

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, photographed in 1992, two years after the publication of The Buddha of Suburbia. [Leonardo Centamo/Getty Images]
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  • Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self, A Biography

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    Manchester University Press, pp. 994, £30

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