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Fiction • Poetry • Essays
Stories of memory,
mortality & longing.
Syed Rizwan is a novelist, short story writer, and poet whose work moves between rural memory, intimate grief, social realities, and the strange territories of the human mind.
“So come back,
memories.”
memories.”
Latest collection
Memories of the
Setting Sun
Six lives. Six thresholds. The long shadow of memory.
In these stories, people stand at the edge of transformation: an old man mourning the love of his life, a woman caught between memory and oblivion, a recent widow shaped by poverty and social prejudice, a child confronting the bewildering world of adults, and others marked by longing, sacrifice, cruelty, and hope.
The bookshelf
Books by Syed Rizwan
Fiction rooted in atmosphere, human contradictions, and the lives we carry after the moment has passed.
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The things we remember are not always the things that happened. Sometimes memory is simply the story that refused to leave.
— from the author’s notebook
Journal
Notes from the writing desk
Essays and articles on literature, craft and the books that stay with us.
About the author
Syed Rizwan
Novelist, short story writer, and poet from Maharashtra, India.
Syed Rizwan writes fiction in English and poetry in Urdu and Hindi. His work is interested in memory, magical realism, alienation, social prejudice, history, and ordinary people and their extraordinary journeys.
He holds a Master’s degree in English Literature and began writing short fiction in English in 2021. His books include Heaven Under the Rubble, Memories of the Setting Sun, and Zeena Zeena Utar Rahi Hai Raat, a collection of poetry in Urdu and Hindi.
Biography & enquiries ↗From my desk to your shelf
Signed Editions
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Memories of the Setting Sun
Signed paperback
₹399 including shipping within India.
Contact
For readers, press & literary enquiries.
General syedrizwanauthor@gmail.com
Rights / Press
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