Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am 35 yo from Iran and I have written 5 books, counting my poetry also.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called “The Cell”, it is a short story of a life, inspired by reality, what actually happend and I just documented it.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wouldn’t call it an usual writing habit but I simply start writing, wherever I am, mostly on paper by hand, sometimes on my phone, if I feel right about it. I just write whenever it hits
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I started writing at the age of 12, 13, so I can say no one fluenced me. As time passed I discovered other writers that I could rely on.. Two of them are Albert Camus and Edgar Allan Poe. But not as an influence, I just read them more.
What are you working on now?
For now I’m working on staying alive, surviving what comes from litteraly every side: this pandemic, life itself.. People in suffering… I am mostly working on myself, as I can call it that way, not any other work or something special but I do have some ideas on my mind.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
I would never consider myself as an author, never. A photographer maybe writer. Even for photographers I just say “ be honest, just create yourself, you don’t need to please anyone, you don’t need to”
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I can say nothing, I do everything on my own, especially my writing
What are you reading now?
I’m not reading anything at the moment
What’s next for you as a writer?
I just want to write
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
People go off to those places to be themselves, with themselves: I don’t think I would bring anything with me except maybe my smokes. No book. I don’t think I ever
Author Websites and Profiles
Ali Sheikhaleslami (known as Thymournia) Website