SIGER KURESHI

The celebrated novelist, screenwriter and playwright Hanif Kureishi has launched a withering attack on university creative writing courses, calling them "the new mental hospitals".
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Kureishi was on particularly caustic form at his event. Of readers' frequent inquiries about the relationship between autobiography and invention in his work, he said, "It's such a dull question. And then people always want to know what time you get up, or whether you write with the window closed or a little bit open, or what your desk looks like."
(Guardian)