Incroci di civiltà

Festival Internazionale
di Letteratura a Venezia
2 5 aprile 2025

Hanif Kureishi Great Britain

Wednesday April 2 - 5.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Narrating is resisting

Prize Incroci - Musei Civici di Venezia

 

Hanif Kureishi (Great Britain)

converses with Shaul Bassi and Flavio Gregori (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

In collaboration with Fondazione di Venezia, Fondazione dell'Albero d'Oro, Marsilio Editori, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Bompiani

The conversation will be in Italian and in English


Hanif Kureishi was born in London to a Pakistani father and an English mother. He is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. In 1985, he wrote the screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette by Stephen Frears, which portrays the knots and contradictions of British society in the Thatcher era. For it, he received the award for Best Screenplay from the New York Film Critics and an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. His works of fiction have been adapted numerous times for the big and small screen. His novel The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) was the subject of a television script for the BBC; the collection of short stories Love in a Blue Time (1997) inspired My Son the Fanatic, directed by Udayan Prasad; the film Intimacy by Patrice Chéreau, winner at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001, is based on the 1998 novel of the same name. Among his numerous works are Gabriel's Gift (2001), The Body (2003), Something to Tell You (2008), The Last Word (2014), The Nothing (2017), Love+Hate (2018), What Happened? (2019). At the end of 2022, Kureishi suffered a serious injury that left him paralysed; he published a diary of his dramatic experience, Shattered (2024).