NICK HORNBY

Nick Hornby is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning author. He has written eight novels including Just Like You, Funny Girl, Juliet Naked, A Long Way Down, Slam, How to be Good, About A Boy and High Fidelity. His non-fiction books include Dickens & Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius, 31 Songs, Fever Pitch and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, a collection of his columns in The Believer magazine, for which he continues to write.

Nick received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay he adapted from Colm Toibin’s novel Brooklyn. He adapted Cheryl Strayed’s memoir for Wild and was Oscar and BAFTA-nominated for his screenplay adaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir An Education. He adapted Nina Stibbe’s memoir Love, Nina for the BBC television series and both seasons of his TV series State of the Union won Emmys.

Nick received the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he co-founded the children’s writing charity Ministry of Stories in East London.