Gabriel's Gift, his fourth novel, was published in 2001. His second collection of stories, Midnight All Day, was published in 2000.

His play Sleep With Me premièred at the Royal National Theatre in 1999. Intimacy, his third novel, was published in 1998, and a film of the same title, based on the novel and other stories by the author, was released in 2001 and won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival. His story My Son the Fanatic, from that collection, was adapted for film and released in 1998. His first collection of short stories, Love in a Blue Time, was published in 1997. His second novel, The Black Album, was published in 1995. His version of Brecht's Mother Courage has been produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. The Buddha of Suburbia won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel in 1990 and was made into a four-part drama series by the BBC in 1993. His second screenplay Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) was followed by London Kills Me (1991) which he also directed. In 1984 he wrote My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. In 1981 he won the George Devine Award for his plays Outskirts and Borderline, and in 1982 he was appointed Writer-in-Residence at the Royal Court Theatre. He read philosophy at King's College, London. On the other hand, My Ear at His Heart published in 2004 is a memoir which introduces us to the unpublished manuscript of Kureishi’s late father’s.Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. Published five years after The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album (1995) is Kureishi’s second novel which explores some crucial issues such as Islamic radicalism, ecstasy, censorship and Prince in late 80s London, as well as religious and cultural clashes between Britain and its immigrants. The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi’s first novel published in 1990, is a semi-autobiographical book focused on the protagonist, Karim’s search for his social and sexual identity in 1970s Britain. In twentieth century British society, one-sided racist social policy that excluded diasporic people from social life started to change and British society transformed into a racially mixed one by dealing with immigrants from different parts of the world.

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