Zulfikar Ghose and Hanif Kureshi

This is not an over sight. It is perhaps more deliberate. Whenever a mention is made of writers - those writers who write in English - both Hanif Kureshi and Zulfikar Ghose are missing.

I have linked to some interviews by Zulfikar Ghose a couple of years back. Today I will link to Aida Edemariam from the Guardian.

The pleasure seeker A life in writing Hanif Kureishi made his name with stories of youthful rebellion and desire. His latest novel, narrated by a psychoanalyst, takes his portrayal of masculinity into middle-age Aida Edemariam The Guardian 'Serious and glib' ... Hanif Kureishi. Photograph: Sarah Lee To read Hanif Kureishi is often to eavesdrop on a particular kind of male narrative. Antic and cocksure, it privileges transgression over conformity, desire over duty, rebellion over acceptance. Replace the word "people" with "men", and the first lines of his new novel, Something to Tell You, spoken by a psychoanalyst, might be a creed: "Secrets are my currency: I deal with them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away."

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