Small Talk’: A Workshop on Hanif Kureishi with Sita Balani & Ashwani Sharma
Schedule
Wed Apr 01 2026 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Round Table Books | London, EN
About this Event
For the third workshop in the ‘Small Talk: On the Corners of London & Paris’ event series, part of the 2026 Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship, we will discuss the work of Hanif Kureishi.
Born in the London suburbs to a Pakistani father and English mother, throughout his career as a novelist, essayist, playwright and screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi has sought to use to the language and chatter of migrant populations to capture the way London ‘became a kind of inferno of pleasure and madness’ for them.
It is these qualities that define his novels such as The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and The Black Album (1995); his films My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and London Kills Me (1991); his essays Dreaming and Scheming (2002); and his recent memoir Shattered (2024).
Two guests will us help to illuminate the aesthetics and politics of the diasporic city in Kureishi’s vast body of work:
- Sita Balani is an academic, writer and activist whose work explores anti-racism, sexuality, feminism, education and colonial history.
- Ashwani Sharma is a writer and intellectual concerned with postcolonial cinema, art and music.
The workshop will be held at Round Table Books in Brixton.
Where is it happening?
Round Table Books, Coldharbour Lane, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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