In her works Irene is interested in examining the subject of cultural identity, She herself come from a culturally diverse background, with family spread across the world - Britain, Thailand, Laos, the USA, Germany, France, Israel, Sri Lanka, Mexico and Australia. Irene aims to make her fiction accessible, exciting and with more than a touch of suspense and romance. She runs courses and gives talks on Hindu temple art and culture.
Irene Black is a British writer with a multicultural background. At various times she has been a psychologist, a teacher of modern languages, and since 2006 an Asian Art historian. She has lived in the USA, Australia and India. She spends most of her summers in Laos were her son lives. In 2006, she gained her MA dissertation on South Indian temples. She has won a number of national and international prizes for short stories, poetry and articles, including the following: winner of NAWG Annual Best Short Story Award 2003, Writers' Forum Magazine Short Story Prize 2004, BBC Southern Counties Short Story Award 2006 and The New Writer Essay/Article Prize in 2004. She was short-listed for Bristol Prize 2008. The Moon's Complexion was the first of her thee novels. She has also published a biography of her parents "If only I could have News from You" ( September 2016), the story of their lives under the Nazis and their amazing exodus from Germany. She has also written a guidebook to South Indian temples (publication March 2018)
`An involving story, beautifully told.' The Oxford Times Book Review
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