 He also won the Stonewall Prize for the Journalist of the Year in 2007 and the Somerset Maugham Award for his novel "Kitchen Venom" in 1996.In 2013 his novel "Scenes from Early Life" was shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, and awarded the Ondaatje Prize.It is based on his husband's childhood against the backdrop of the war of independence in Bangladesh.