Collected Stories (88 page)

Eric perched on the edge of the bed, looking at them both. Then he opened the curtains so there was sufficient moonlight for him to see to kiss them.

He wondered what Eric would do when he got home – look at photographs of his lost family?

The boy was nine, and he was heavy, but Eric picked him up and carried him to his bed. Then he got into his own bed and stayed awake for as long as he could, listening to his wife’s breathing and waiting for the morning light.

Love in a Blue Time
first published by Faber in 1997

‘In a Blue Time’ and ‘With Your Tongue down My Throat’ first appeared in
Granta
; ‘We’re Not Jews’ first appeared in the
London
Review of Books
; ‘D’accord, Baby’ appeared in
Atlantic Monthly
and the
Independent Magazine
; ‘My Son the Fanatic’ first appeared in
The New Yorker
, and subsequently in
New Writing 4
(ed. A. S. Byatt and Alan Hollinghurst); ‘The Tale of the Turd’ appeared in
em writing & music
and
The Word
.

Midnight All Day
first published by Faber in 1999

The Body
first published by Faber in 2002

‘Hullabaloo in the Tree’ first published in the
Guardian
; ‘Face to Face with You’ first published in
The Black Book
; ‘Goodbye, Mother’ first published in
Granta
; ‘Remember This Moment, Remember Us’ first published in
Red
; ‘Touched’ first published in
The New Yorker

‘The Dogs’ first published in the
Guardian
in 2004 

‘Long Ago Yesterday’ first published in
The New Yorker
in 2004 

‘Weddings and Beheadings’ first published in
Zoetrope
in 2006 

‘The Assault’ first published in the
Independent
in 2007

Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King’s College, London. 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. In 1984 he wrote
My Beautiful Laundrette,
which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. His second screenplay,
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
(1987), was followed by
London Kills Me
(1991), which he also directed.
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 version of Brecht’s
Mother Courage
has been produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. His second novel,
The Black Album
, was published in 1995. With Jon Savage he edited
The Faber Book of Pop
(1995). His first collection of short stories,
Love in a Blue Time
, was published in 1997. His story ‘My Son the Fanatic’, from that collection, was adapted for film and released in 1998.
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 play
Sleep With Me
premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 1999. His second collection of stories,
Midnight All Day
, was published in 2000.
Gabriel’s Gift
, his fourth novel, was published in 2001.
The Body and Seven Stories
and
Dreaming and Scheming
, a collection of essays, were published in 2002. His screenplay
The Mother
was directed by Roger Michell and released in 2003. In 2004 he published his play
When the Night Begins
and a memoir, My Ear at His Heart. A second collection of essays, The Word and the Bomb, followed in 2005. His screenplay
Venus
was directed by Roger Michell in 2006. His latest novel,
Something to Tell You
was published to great critical acclaim in 2008. In 2009 the National Theatre staged an adaptation of his strikingly prescient and acclaimed novel,
The Black Album
. He has been awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts des Lettres and a CBE for services to literature and his work has been translated into thirty-six languages.

PLAYS

Plays One (
The King and Me, Outskirts, Borderline, Birds of Passage
)

Sleep With Me

When the Night Begins

The Black Album

SCREENPLAYS

My Beautiful Laundrette & Other Writings

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

London Kills Me

My Son the Fanatic

The Mother

Venus

Collected Screenplays 1

FICTION

The Buddha of Suburbia

The Black Album

Love in a Blue Time

Intimacy

Midnight All Day

Gabriel’s Gift

The Body

Something to Tell You

NON-FICTION

The Faber Book of Pop (edited with Jon Savage)

Dreaming and Scheming

My Ear at His Heart

The Word and the Bomb