Hanif Kureishi is a playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist. His novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, won the 1990 Whitbread First Novel Award and he was the recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette in 1986. His most recent novel, The Last Word, was published in 2014 and a collection of stories, Love + Hate: Stories and Essays appeared the following year.
