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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 renomé German composer Werner Müller 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 Schüler Society-Foundation.

Besides of his literary work Sam Vaseghi holds a PhD in Process Engineering and several Degrees in Engineering (MSc), Biological (MSc) and Business Sciences as well as a Harvard Business School Post Doctoral education in Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility. He is also author of several books and publications in the area of Business Management, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility. Sam Vaseghi is a Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche, engaged with leading Multinational Companies in Europe and Far East.