"Which author has written the novels ""My Beautiful Launderette"" and the ""Buddha of Suburbia""?"
"the series' soundtrack was released on 8 November 1993, the tracks on the album are significantly reworked. The primary song that remains the same on the soundtrack album is the programme's theme song ""The Buddha of Suburbia"". A promotional music video was made for the song, featuring Bowie performing the song while strolling around an English suburb as scenes from the series are intercut throughout. The Buddha of Suburbia (TV serial) The Buddha of Suburbia is a 1993 British four-part television serial, directed by Roger Michell. Based on the novel of the same name by Hanif Kureishi, the programme starred"
"Screenplay. He also wrote the screenplay for ""Sammy and Rosie Get Laid"" (1987). His book ""The Buddha of Suburbia"" (1990) won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel and was made into a BBC television series with a soundtrack by David Bowie. 1991 saw the release of the feature film entitled ""London Kills Me"", written and directed by Kureishi. His novel ""Intimacy"" (1998) revolved around the story of a man leaving his wife and two young sons after feeling physically and emotionally rejected by his wife. This created some controversy as Kureishi had recently left his own partner (the"
"a gift for mimicry and a sharp ear for accents made him the natural choice as narrator for audio books. His narration of the ""Kama Sutra"" titled ""The Art of Love"" (1996) was listed by ""Time"" magazine as ""one of the five best spoken word records ever made"". He voiced all 86 characters in the 1997 BBC World Service broadcast of Vikram Seth's novel, ""A Suitable Boy"". During the 1980s and 1990s he was considered to be Britain's highest-profile Asian actor, thanks to his leading roles in the movie ""My Beautiful Laundrette"" (1985) and television series ""Tandoori Nights"" (1985–87) and"
"(born 1932), born in Trinidad, was another immigrant, who wrote among other things ""A House for Mr Biswas"" (1961) and ""A Bend in the River"" (1979). Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Also from the West Indies is George Lamming (born 1927), who wrote ""In the Castle of My Skin"" (1953), while from Pakistan, came Hanif Kureshi (born 1954), a playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. His book ""The Buddha of Suburbia"" (1990) won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel, and was also made into a BBC television series. Another important immigrant writer Kazuo Ishiguro"
"The Buddha of Suburbia (song) ""The Buddha of Suburbia"" is the theme song to the BBC TV series of the same name, released by David Bowie in 1993. It was re-recorded with Lenny Kravitz for Bowie's album, also titled ""The Buddha of Suburbia"", and inspired by his musical score for the series. The single reached No. 35 in the UK singles chart. One of the few tracks from the series that was actually retained unchanged for the album, its nostalgic lyrics were matched by a sound that was something of a pastiche of Bowie's past work, while retaining a fresh"
"Byrne created the costumes for all four parts of the TV serial ""The Buddha of Suburbia"" starring Naveen Andrews. For her costume work in the production, she received a nomination at the British Academy Television Awards. Byrne's first encounter with period costume dramas began when she was hired to create the costumes for the BBC film ""Persuasion"". The production was an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jane Austen, and featured Amanda Root as Anne Elliot. Byrne had also worked with the film's director, Roger Michell, on ""Some Americans Abroad"" and ""The Buddha of Suburbia"". For her"
"with a holographic CD. </small> The Buddha of Suburbia (song) ""The Buddha of Suburbia"" is the theme song to the BBC TV series of the same name, released by David Bowie in 1993. It was re-recorded with Lenny Kravitz for Bowie's album, also titled ""The Buddha of Suburbia"", and inspired by his musical score for the series. The single reached No. 35 in the UK singles chart. One of the few tracks from the series that was actually retained unchanged for the album, its nostalgic lyrics were matched by a sound that was something of a pastiche of Bowie's past"
"as a pornography writer, under the pseudonyms Antonia French and Karim. He went on to write plays for the Hampstead Theatre, Soho Poly and by the age of 18 was with the Royal Court. He wrote ""My Beautiful Laundrette"" in 1985, a screenplay about a gay Pakistani-British boy growing up in 1980s London for a film directed by Stephen Frears. The screenplay, especially the racial discrimination experienced, contained elements from Hanif's own experiences as the only Pakistani student in his class at school. It won the New York Film Critics Best Screenplay Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best"
"Ritual Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956) is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, ""Arranged Marriage"" won an American Book Award in 1995, and two of her novels (""The Mistress of Spices"" and ""Sister of My Heart"") as well as a short story ""The Word Love"" were adapted into films. ""Mistress of Spices"" was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Currently, ""Sister of My Heart,"" ""Oleander Girl,"" "","" and ""One Amazing Thing"" have all been optioned"
"his books are the precursors to works such as ""White Teeth"" by Zadie Smith and ""The Buddha of Suburbia"" by Hanif Kureishi. Selvon explained: ""When I wrote the novel that became ""The Lonely Londoners"", I tried to recapture a certain quality in West Indian everyday life. I had in store a number of wonderful anecdotes and could put them into focus, but I had difficulty starting the novel in straight English. The people I wanted to describe were entertaining people indeed, but I could not really move. At that stage, I had written the narrative in English and most of"
"My Beautiful Laundrette My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 British comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. The film was also one of the first films released by Working Title Films. The story is set in London during the Thatcher years, as reflected in the complex—and often comical—relationships between members of the Pakistani and English communities. The story focuses on Omar, played by Gordon Warnecke, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reunion and eventual romance with his old friend, a street punk named Johnny, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. The two become the"
"Interpreter of Maladies Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian Origin Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It was also chosen as ""The New Yorker""'s Best Debut of the Year and is on Oprah Winfrey's Top Ten Book List. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between their roots and the ""New World."" A married couple, Shukumar and Shoba, live as"
"editor of an English news-weekly ""Suvidha Express"" for over two years and then moved to edit and write for filmtvindia.com, a Bollywood related web site. Mohan Deep Mohan Deep (born Mohan Kishinchand Chandirramani in 1948), is an Indian writer. He has written multiple books on Bollywood film personalities, including the books: ""The Mystery and Mystique of Madhubala"", ""It's My Life"" (novel), ""Simply Scandalous: Meena Kumari"", ""Eurekha! – an unauthorised biography of Rekha"", etc. In recent years, he has focused on writing fiction. Two of his novels are ""The Five Foolish Virgins"" (2013) and ""Color Me Rich"" (2016) Deep was born"
"the practical and fine arts. ""The Dharma Bums"", a novel written by Jack Kerouac and published in 1959, gave its readers a look at how a fascination with Buddhism and Zen was being absorbed into the bohemian lifestyles of a small group of American youths, primarily on the West Coast. Beside the narrator, the main character in this novel was ""Japhy Ryder"", a thinly veiled depiction of Gary Snyder. The story was based on actual events taking place while Snyder prepared, in California, for the formal Zen studies that he would pursue in Japanese monasteries between 1956 and 1968. Thomas"
"aspirational and insecure sister Victoria; the town is frequently mocked by association. Beckenham is also one of the main locations of the novel ""The Buddha of Suburbia"" (1990), by Hanif Kureishi. The burial site is at Beckenham Crematorium (also known as Elmers End Crematorium and Cemetery). The Beckenham Police Station building is situated in Bromley Road. Among those who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, are politician and colonial administrator George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784–1849), politician and diplomat William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland (1745–1814), Admiral"
"novels, including ""The Subterraneans"", ""Doctor Sax"", ""Tristessa"", and ""Desolation Angels"", which chronicle many of the events of these years. In 1953, he lived mostly in New York City, having a brief but passionate affair with an African-American woman. This woman was the basis for the character named ""Mardou"" in the novel ""The Subterraneans"". At the request of his editors, Kerouac changed the setting of the novel from New York to San Francisco. In 1954, Kerouac discovered Dwight Goddard's ""A Buddhist Bible"" at the San Jose Library, which marked the beginning of his study of Buddhism. However, Kerouac had earlier taken"
"international fiction. In the diaspora, Hanif Kureshi commenced a prolific career with the novel ""The Buddha of Suburbia"" (1990), which won the Whitbread Award, and Aamer Hussein wrote a series of acclaimed short story collections. Sara Suleri published her literary memoir, ""Meatless Days"" (1989). Pakistani English writing has had some readership in the country. From 1980's Pakistani English literature began to receive national and official recognition, when the Pakistan Academy of Letters included works originally written English in its annual literary awards. The first major English writer to receive this national honour was Alamgir Hashmi. Subsequently, through the last three"
"Mohan Deep Mohan Deep (born Mohan Kishinchand Chandirramani in 1948), is an Indian writer. He has written multiple books on Bollywood film personalities, including the books: ""The Mystery and Mystique of Madhubala"", ""It's My Life"" (novel), ""Simply Scandalous: Meena Kumari"", ""Eurekha! – an unauthorised biography of Rekha"", etc. In recent years, he has focused on writing fiction. Two of his novels are ""The Five Foolish Virgins"" (2013) and ""Color Me Rich"" (2016) Deep was born as Mohan Kishinchand Chandirramni and his family belonged to a Sindhi (Hyderabadi Aamil) family that migrated from Karachi (Sind) (now in Pakistan) in the wake"
"Richard Crasta Richard Crasta ( (Devanagari)) is an Indian American writer and novelist, with a strong Indian identity in his writings. He grew up in Mangalore, has lived in the United States for twenty years, mostly in the New York metropolitan region, and now spends much of his time in Asia. His works include the comic and frankly sexual coming of age novel, ""The Revised Kama Sutra"" (published in seven languages and ten countries to date), and fiction and nonfiction books such as ""Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery""; ""Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex""; the semi-fictional"
"Subhro Bandopadhyay Subhro Bandopadhyay (pen name of Subhransu Banerjee) is an Indian poet who writes in Bengali. He won Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puraskar, (awarded by Govt. of India to young writers of the country) 2013 for his poetry book ""Bouddho Lekhomala O Onnyano Shraman"". He was born in Kolkata, 1978. He studied Biological Sciences then shifted to Spanish language for his keen interest in literature. He is a young polyglot writer who speaks four languages including Spanish and English. He has authored 5 poetry books, a novel and a biography on Pablo Neruda, all of them in Bengali. His third"
"Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956) is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, ""Arranged Marriage"" won an American Book Award in 1995, and two of her novels (""The Mistress of Spices"" and ""Sister of My Heart"") as well as a short story ""The Word Love"" were adapted into films. ""Mistress of Spices"" was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Currently, ""Sister of My Heart,"" ""Oleander Girl,"" "","" and ""One Amazing Thing"" have all been optioned to"
"The Buddha of Suburbia, starring Naveen Andrews. He followed that with the BBC film ""Persuasion"" in 1995. After it won the 1995 BAFTA for Best Single Drama., the film was released in theatres in America to great success. Michell then directed ""My Night with Reg"" (1997) and ""Titanic Town"" (1998). Michell was next chosen by Richard Curtis to direct his script ""Notting Hill"", which ended up becoming one of the highest grossing British movies of all time on its release in 1999. At the end of that film, Julia Roberts's character is seen relaxing on a park bench and sitting"
"translated into many languages: Interpreter of Maladies Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian Origin Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It was also chosen as ""The New Yorker""'s Best Debut of the Year and is on Oprah Winfrey's Top Ten Book List. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between their roots and the ""New World."" A married couple, Shukumar"
"in his first novel, ""The Buddha of Suburbia"", but also for the image of his own past that he portrays in newspaper interviews. She wrote: ""My father was angry when ""The Buddha of Suburbia"" came out as he felt that Hanif had robbed him of his dignity, and he didn't speak to Hanif for about a year."" Kureishi and his father did not speak for many months during the controversy. There was further furore with the publication of ""Intimacy"", as the story was assumed to be autobiographical. In 2013 Kureishi was appointed as a professor in the creative writing department"
"Bold and Beautiful, the Rich and Famous"" was published in 2001. It was launched by Bollywood star Ajay Devgn. ""The Five Foolish Virgins"" (2013) was a novel. 'The Five Foolish Virgins', is a fictional take on the world of cinema. ""Color Me Rich"" (2016) was the tenth book, and the 3rd novel of the author. Besides writing, Mohan Deep was into painting and oriental philosophy. Much before Feng Shui became popular in India, he had started experimenting with the ancient oriental philosophy and science of Geomancy. Mohan Deep and became a Feng Shui Master in 2001. He was also the"
"Bhattacharyya has published critical essays on Buddhism, Jacques Lacan, August Strindberg, Maxim Gorky, Pirandello, Albert Camus, Bertolt Brecht, Peter Weiss, Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Arundhati Roy, Aravind Adiga, Jhumpa Lahiri and Pablo Neruda which are published in various Indian print journals. Anuradha Bhattacharyya Anuradha Bhattacharyya (born 6 December 1975) is an Indian writer of poetry and fiction. She writes in the English language. She is Assistant Professor of English in Post Graduate Government College, Sector-11, Chandigarh. She has written several books. Her novel ""One Word"" has been awarded Best Book of the year 2016 by the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi. Anuradha"
"Arunabha Sengupta Arunabha Sengupta (born 1973) is an Indian novelist. He has written 4 novels and one collection of short stories. He is also a cricket historian and the Chief Cricket Writer at CricketCountry.com. ""True picture of the Indian workplace"" - Book Review India, vol 30 No 7 July 6 Both listed in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature - a novel combining the worlds of Software, Love and Aikido and set against the backdrop of 9/11. (The author himself is a first dan black belt in Kobayashi Aikido.) - A novel set in Amsterdam, dealing with, among others, the travels"
"Siddhartha Gigoo Siddhartha Gigoo, an Indian author and film-maker, studied English Literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is the author of two books of fiction, "" The Garden of Solitude"" (2011), Siddhartha has also written and directed two short films. ""The Last Day"", set against the backdrop of the exodus and exile of Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland in 1990, Kashmir, India, was selected for the 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, the 7th Annual FilmAid Film Festival (Kenya), the International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts–Short and Micro Cinema (Los Angeles), the 11th International"
"Madhuri Banerjee Madhuri Banerjee (born 9 August 1975) is an Indian author, columnist and screenwriter. Her debut novel ""Losing My Virginity And Other Dumb Ideas"" sold over 40,000 copies. She is also the writer of the successful Bollywood film, ""Hate Story 2"". She has also worked with actress Karishma Kapoor on a non-fiction book called ""The Yummy Mummy Guide"". She was a columnist with ""Asian Age"" for two years and has a sex and relationship column in the ""Maxim"" magazine. She has also won a National Award for her documentary on women’s issues called ""Between Dualities"". She has been the"
"Madhuri Banerjee Madhuri Banerjee (born 9 August 1975) is an Indian author, columnist and screenwriter. Her debut novel ""Losing My Virginity And Other Dumb Ideas"" sold over 40,000 copies. She is also the writer of the successful Bollywood film, ""Hate Story 2"". She has also worked with actress Karishma Kapoor on a non-fiction book called ""The Yummy Mummy Guide"". She was a columnist with ""Asian Age"" for two years and has a sex and relationship column in the ""Maxim"" magazine. She has also won a National Award for her documentary on women’s issues called ""Between Dualities"". She has been the"
"literature arouses as the criterion of its excellence. Mumbiram is also known for his ""prema vivarta"" work of euphorisms, ""Deluges of Ecstasy"", composed during his 12 years in the United States. Mumbiram was born in the busy Mandai vegetable market place of downtown Pune, son of the lawyer and public figure Ramdas Paranjpe. His mother Anjani was the daughter of watercolor artist S. H. Godbole, who was secretary of the Bombay Art Society in the 1930s. Anjani was also the granddaughter of Shri Vartak, the first Indian Chief Engineer of the colonial Bombay Presidency. Mumbiram's father was a nephew of"
"""Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty"" (2014) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism). Chandra is married to the writer Melanie Abrams. They both teach creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Chandra currently divides his time between Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and Oakland, California, United States. He has two daughters, Leela and Darshana. Vikram Chandra (novelist) Vikram Chandra (born 1961 in India) is an Indian-American writer. His first novel, ""Red Earth and Pouring Rain"", won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Chandra was born in New Delhi in"
"hard-drinking gambler. Womanising. Around him it was like ""The Godfather"". They drank and they gossiped. The women would come and go. Hanif Kureishi attended Bromley Technical High School and studied for A-levels at Bromley College of Technology. While at this college he was elected as Student Union President (1972) and some of the characters from his semi-autobiographical work ""The Buddha of Suburbia"" are from this period. He went on to spend a year studying philosophy at Lancaster University before dropping out. Later he attended King's College London and earned a degree in philosophy. Kureishi started his career in the 1970s"