Hanif Kureishi
He is one of the most respected contemporary British writers, screenwriter and filmmaker, who was included by "Times" magazine among the fifty greatest British post-war writers. His works mainly deal with race, nationalism, immigration and sexuality.
In the 1980s, he established himself as a playwright and screenwriter. The screenplay for the film "My Beautiful Laundry" by director Stephen Frears, about a gay young man growing up in London in the eighties, earned him an Oscar nomination and an award for best screenplay from the New York Film Critics Association.
His novel "Buddha of the Suburbs (1990)" won the prestigious Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and was adapted into the acclaimed BBC series The Soundtrack by David Bowie. He published his fourth novel, Gabriel's Gift, in 2001, and after that he published the novels Body (2003), I have something to say (2008), The Last Word (2014), and Nothing (2017).
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Gabrielov dar
The hero of this novel by Hanif Kureishi is Gabriel, a fifteen-year-old boy from North London who has to find his way in a new life after the departure of his father upsets the balance of his family home.