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Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti (born Watford) is a British Sikh writer. She has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. ==Life== Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s first play ''Behsharam'' (''Shameless'') broke box office records when it played at Soho Theatre and the Birmingham Rep in 2001. Her play ''Behzti'' (''Dishonour'') was controversially cancelled by the Birmingham Rep after violent protests against the play. death threats forced Bhatti to go into hiding. In 2005 ''Behzti'' won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for the best English language play written by a woman.〔('Bezhti' author wins prize for women playwrights ), Louise Jury, The Independent, 8 March 2005, retrieved 9 June 2009〕 In 2006 ''Behzti'' was translated into French and did sell-out tours in France and Belgium. Behzti was translated into Italian in 2012 and was performed in Bari, Italy. In 2010 her follow up to ''Behzti'' titled ''Behud'' (''Beyond Belief'') 〔('Behud' ), Michael Billington, (The Guardian ), 31 March 2010, retrieved 24 December 2012〕 was co-produced by Soho Theatre and Coventry Belgrade and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award. In 2014, ''Khandan'' (''Family'') opened to sell out audiences at the Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court Theatre. In June 2014, her first anthology of plays - (Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti : PLAYS ONE ) was published by (Oberon Books ) (ISBN 9781783191307). She is now working on a stage commission for the ('National Theatre' ). Gurpreet also regularly writes for ''The Archers'',〔 the Radio 4 drama serial. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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