Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi CBE is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. His screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette was nominated for an Academy Award and his book The Buddha of Suburbia won the 1990 Whitbread Award for best novel. His 2006 screenplay Venus received Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations and in 2008 he was appointed CBE. His latest book Something To Tell You – “a vital, teeming, panoramic, immersive novel” (Time Out) – was published in 2008, and his own stage adaptation of his novel The Black Album premiered at the National Theatre in 2009.

“There is more that is worth thinking about in Hanif Kureishi’s new book than in the work of almost any other current British novelist.”
The Evening Standard