Hanif Kureishi, of Pakistani origin, was born in England in 1954. He studied Philosophy at King's College in London, and there he began to write for the theater; he won the George Devine Award with Outskirts. Anagrama has published his scripts for the films My Beautiful Laundry (1985), Sammy and Rosie Get It On and London Kills Me (the latter directed by himself), his novels The Buddha of the Suburbs (Whitbread Award and adapted into a series television on the BBC), The Black Album, Intimacy (adapted to film in 2001), Gabriel's Gift, My Ear in His Heart, Something to Tell You, The Last Word and Nada de Nada, two books of stories, Love in Times Sad and It's Always Midnight, The Body, a novel accompanied by several stories, and the autobiographical textbook Soñar y telling (2004).