Riverside Studios at 50: Hanif Kureishi in Conversation

As part of our 50th birthday celebrations, we are delighted to welcome writer Hanif Kureshi back to Riverside Studios for a very special fundraising event.

Having begun his literary career as manager of Riverside's bookshop in the late 1970s, Hanif Kureishi has gone on to become one of the world's most popular and celebrated writers.  

Hanif will be interviewed on stage about his remarkable life and career, as a playwright (Sammy and Rosie Get Laid), novelist (The Buddha of Suburbia, My Son the Fanatic, Intimacy), screenwriter (The Mother, Le Week End and the Oscar-nominated My Beautiful Laundrette)and memoirist with Shattered, which powerfully documents the accident in Italy in 2022 which left him tetraplegic. 

Hanif's latest memoir Are You with Me Now? - published by Penguin in November - is a fiercely funny, unflinching account of survival – and of creativity, desire and companionship persisting when the body, and conventional life, fall apart.

Riverside Studios is a registered charity. Every ticket you buy helps keep Riverside inclusive and accessible to all, providing affordable space and support for fellow creatives, discounted tickets to our shows and community workshops via our Dive In programme. Thank you.