He is an Australian novelist.
He began writing when he was ten, filling pages with thoughts and questions about people, existence, and the meaning of a life. Long before he began writing fiction, life itself had become a question to him.
At the same age, he began studying calligraphy seriously. From then on, words occupied two places in his life: on the page, and in his thoughts.
In his twenties, he worked as a graphic designer, designing more than one hundred books, magazines, and catalogues. In his thirties, he left graphic design and devoted ten years to writing the Qur’an by hand in Persian calligraphy. Through those years, he continued to write.
After moving to Australia, he began studying English literature in 2012. English was not the language in which he had grown up or first learned to write. It became the language he chose for his fiction.
By his forties, the novel had become his work.
He has since written several novels. For years, many remained in his archive as he continued to revise rather than publish them. He is now returning to those manuscripts one by one, editing each as an independent work and bringing it to publication.
At the centre of his fiction is the question that has followed him since childhood: how a human life can be understood. His novels remain close to their characters, to what they do and remember, what they conceal, and what they leave unsaid.
He writes full-time in Canberra. One novel at a time.
His work with letterforms and with the printed page continues alongside the fiction. Read more about his calligraphy, type design and graphic design.
