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//Writing Assignment:// //List biographical information about the author which you believe is relevant for understanding the story (use bullets). Then write a short text which explains how the points you have listed are relevant to the story.//

=Hanif Kureishi=
 * 1954 born in a London suburb


 * was discriminated against in school


 * product of interracial marriage


 * wrote pornographic stories

Hanif Kureishi was born in 1954 in Bromley, a London suburb. Because of his parents, a white English mother and a Pakistani father, he felt the problems of an interracial marriage; in school he had a lot of problems and was beaten up by his classmates. Before his career as a playwright began, he wrote pornographic stories under a pseudonym in order to earn money. This fact shows that Kureishi had no problems writing about things, which are a taboo in the home country of his father.

(Paul S. in collaboration with Anika)