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Sam Vaseghi was born 1967 in Teheran, living his early childhood
in Teheran and Stuttgart (Germany). 1973 he returned with his parents
to Rasht (Iran), where he lived until 1983. In this time
he experienced the late dictatorship period of the Shah, the revolution
1979 and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war. 1983 he returned
to Germany and completed 1987 his German bachelor and until 2000 his
studies in Engineering and Biological Sciences at the University of
Stuttgart.
In parallel, during this period he was a classical composition scholar
of the renomŽ German composer Werner MŸller and a canto scholar of
the French-American singer Frederique Barbier at the Stuttgart Music
Academy, where he was specializing
in classical composition and the techniques of sprechgesang.
In the years 1992 to 2000, during several stays in Paris, Buenos Aires, and Montreal
he began to intensify his literary work in Farsi, Spanish, English, and French.
Numerous literary contributions were developed: Translations of Iranian master
poetry in German, Spanish and English, translation of German and
Spanish poetry in Farsi, presentations of own poetry in Farsi and German,
as well as his first novels in German language.
1998 he traveled finally for the last time to Iran, left immediately thereafter
the country under the sociopolitical pressure and returned consciously to the
German exile. Since then Sam Vaseghi is active member of the
Iranian Writer's Association (in Exile) - Kanune Nevisandegane Iran -
as well as the Iranian PEN Center (in Exile). Continuing
his travels around the globe, since 2003 he is engaged with networking of Iranian
Exile Writers and the Foundation of the Archives of Iranian Writers
in Exile and the Iranian Burnt Books Foundation . Both
organizations are operating under the patronship of the Else-Lasker
SchŸler Society-Foundation.
Sam Vaseghi is Chief Editor and togther with his wife founder of the Iran Oprn
Publishing Group.
Besides of his literary work Sam Vaseghi holds a PhD in Process Engineering
and several Degrees in Engineering (MSc), Biological (MSc) and Business Sciences
- Harvard Business School Post Doctoral . He is author of
several books and publications in the area of Business Management, Sustainability and
Corporate Responsibility . Sam Vaseghi is a Manager with Deloitte & Touche
, engaged with leading Multinational Companies in Europe and Far East. |
