 In 2002 he released "1515", an alternative historical fiction that takes on the Portuguese conquest of Malacca with victory siding instead to the Malacca Sultanate.It won first place in the 2002 Utusan Malaysia-Exxon Mobil Literature Prize plus the 2005 National Book Award in the General Malay Fiction category.The book is also used as a reading text for Malay studies at the University of Cologne in Germany.