Love in a Blue Time

Hanif Kureishi is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is the author of nine novels, including The Buddha of Suburbia (winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel), The Black Album, Intimacy, and The Nothing. He was twice nominated for Oscars for best original screenplay (My Beautiful Laundrette  and Venus,   which starred Peter O’ Toole). In 2010 Kureishi received the prestigious  PEN/Pinter Prize. He lives in London.