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In 2010 his Collected Stories were published.He has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In July 2009 his adaptation of his novel, The Black Album, opened at the National Theatre, prior to a nation-wide tour. His novel Something to Tell You was published in 2008. His screenplay Venus was directed by Roger Michell in 2006. A second collection of essays, The Word and the Bomb, followed in 2005.

In 2004 he published his play When The Night Begins and a memoir, My Ear At His Heart. His screenplay The Mother was directed by Roger Michell and released in 2003. The Body and Seven Stories and Dreaming and Scheming, a collection of essays, were published in 2002. Gabriel's Gift, his fourth novel, was published in 2001. His second collection of stories, Midnight All Day, was published in 2000. His play Sleep With Me premièred at the Royal National Theatre in 1999. Intimacy, his third novel, was published in 1998, and a film of the same title, based on the novel and other stories by the author, was released in 2001 and won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival. His story My Son the Fanatic, from that collection, was adapted for film and released in 1998. His first collection of short stories, Love in a Blue Time, was published in 1997.

His second novel, The Black Album, was published in 1995. His version of Brecht's Mother Courage has been produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. The Buddha of Suburbia won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel in 1990 and was made into a four-part drama series by the BBC in 1993. His second screenplay Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) was followed by London Kills Me (1991) which he also directed. In 1984 he wrote My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.

In 1981 he won the George Devine Award for his plays Outskirts and Borderline, and in 1982 he was appointed Writer-in-Residence at the Royal Court Theatre.

He read philosophy at King's College, London. Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent.