A Chevening and Fulbright scholar, Ahmad Fuadi parlayed his formative years at an Islamic boarding school into his celebrated first novel, “Negeri 5 Menara”, which sold more than 100,000 copies in the first year of its release. Translated into English, “The Land of Five Towers”, the award-winning novel has also been adapted into a feature film.
He was featured at Frankfurt Book Fair, Byron Bay Writers Festival in Australia, Ubud Writers Festival, Singapore Writers Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, and Makassar Writers Festival. He is the founder of Komunitas Menara, an organization to help unfortunate children to get a free access to early childhood education. He was a resident writer in Bellagio Center, Italy and an artist-in-residence at University of California, Berkeley, and UK Alumni Award winner 2016. In 2018 he wrote his first early reader book, “Ayo Belajar Silat!”. His novel, “Anak Rantau” was awarded the fiction in Islamic Book Awards in 2019. The movie adaptation of his second novel is planned to be released in 2021.