Adrian Pourviseh was born in Koblenz in 1995. He studied Middle Eastern Studies in Marburg and Rabat (Morocco) and Development Economics at Lund University in Sweden. He also attended summer schools in Tehran, Alexandria, and Uppsala, and worked on climate research projects in Namibia and Pakistan, as well as for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

In 2015, while still a student, he began working as a translator for young refugees. Starting in 2019, he joined the Sea-Watch 3 as a translator and photographer and volunteered on the island of Lesbos. He documented his experiences on the Sea-Watch 3 in illustrated diary entries. They were exhibited in 2020 as part of the “SW5Y – Five Years of Civilian Sea Rescue” exhibition at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt. In 2022, he was a “Land in Sicht” fellow of the Hessian Literature Council.

In his graphic novel debut „Das Schimmern der See – Als Seenotretter auf dem Mittelmeer“ Pourviseh recounts his experiences on a sea rescue mission in the summer of 2021.