Life
Shahrokh Meskoob was born in the city of Babol in north of Iran. He started reading novels and literature since he just finished the primary school.
He then continued his school in Isfahan and then returned to Tehran in 1945 to study law in the University of Tehran. Three years later he graduated from law school and started his activities in leftist political parties.
On March 1955 he was jailed and tortured. Two things kept him alive while he was prisoned; his mother and his close friend Morteza Keyvan (مرتضی کیوان) who was executed. Shahrokh Meskoob was released on May 1957. From 1959 until the 1979 Iranian revolution, he worked for different government sectors.
After the revolution, he moved to Europe and spent most of his time in France. He died in 2005 in Paris.
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