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Hamzeh Naghdi

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https://hamzeh.au

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Genre

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary

Member Since

December 2015

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Hamzeh Naghdi is an Australian novelist, calligrapher and type designer. He was born in Iran and lives in Canberra, where he writes full-time.

At the age of ten, he took up both writing and the formal study of Persian calligraphy. The two practices have run in parallel since. In his twenties he worked as a graphic designer. In his thirties he left graphic design to write the complete Qur’an by hand in Persian Naskh script, a single continuous work that took nearly a decade.

After moving to Australia he began studying English literature in 2012. English was neither his first language nor the one in which he first wrote; it became the language of his fiction. By his forties the novel had become his principal work.

His fiction stays close to what ...more