 Coming to Australia to study he completed a Ph.D. in English literature at Flinders University.He has published several volumes of poetry, the first of which, "Rahu" (means Rahu, the sun eclipse caused by the Asura in the Hindu mythology), received the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry in 1988.His writing commonly treats events in his home country, such as the 1987 coup, from an ironic perspective.