Fereydoun Farokhzad

Fereydoun Farrokhzad was born in "Gomrok Four Way" in Tehran, Iran. He was the second of seven children (Amir, Massoud, Mehrdad, Forough, Pouran, Gloria). After graduating from high school he went to Germany and Austria for post secondary education. He got his PhD in political science from the university of Berlin. At a young age Farrokhzad had a passion for poetry and for singing and he turned that passion to reality in 1962 when he started writing poems in Germany which were published in two German newspapers.

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