British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist
In 2008, The Times included Kureishi in its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945
born to a Pakistani father and an English mother
father was from a wealthy family based in Madras (now Chennai), whose members moved to Pakistan after the Partition of India in 1947
My [paternal] grandfather, an army doctor, was a colonel in the British Indian Army. Big family. Servants. Tennis court. Cricket. Everything. My father went to the Cathedral School that Salman Rushdie went to. Later, in Pakistan, my family were close to the Bhuttos. My uncle Omar was a newspaper columnist and the manager of the Pakistan cricket team…