Background
Salariya was born Dundee, Scotland in 1954 and received education in Art School not too far away from his house.
Salariya was born Dundee, Scotland in 1954 and received education in Art School not too far away from his house.
He later pursued career as an illustrator by attending both Ancrum Road Primary School and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art from which he graduated in 1979.
His first illustration was designed for Readers Digest which put a path in his career as an illustrator. In 1986 he did around 50 books for Giunti Marzocco in Florence, Italy. Three years later he founded Salariya Book Company and became its editorial packager.
In 1993 he and his company buys an office in Marlborough Place, Brighton and four years later he begins selling his books to various publishers, one of which, Book House, by 2001 buys his imprint.
In 2009 he and his company published a series of books called The Cherished Library and the same year launched Amos Daragon series which was brought from a French-Canadian publisher called Les Intouchables and was published by Scribo. On April 1, 2010 he and his company have published three books in the United Kingdom including Augmented Reality, What Lola Wants…Lola Gets and Tyrone The Clean ‘O’ Saurus.