After graduating from film school I spent over a decade as a music TV director before moving into the advertising industry as an award-winning copywriter and translator. In parallel to my corporate work, I have written novels, short stories, blogs, screenplays and a stage play. I speak four languages and have been married three times in three different countries in three different decades. I therefore likes the odd pint of Guinness. And I'm pretty keen on the even pints too… My influences (apart from the Guinness) are writers who open doors to new worlds with exceptionally crafted prose. People like Nabokov, Cervantes, Amis, McCarthy, McEwan, and Eggers, plus others I should mention but aren't springing to mind right now!