Education
He graduated from University of Tehran Faculty of Law in 1963.
He graduated from University of Tehran Faculty of Law in 1963.
Born in Tehran, Iran. Sepanlou received his diploma from Dar ul-Funun high school. Throughout his literary career, Sepanlou published over 60 books
Sepanlou also translated works of several renowned writers and poets, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus as well as Horace McCoy, Yiannis Ritsos, Arthur Rimbaud, and Guillaume Apollinaire into Persian.
He took part in many literary seminars and conferences around the world, introducing Iranian culture and literature to writers, critics, and book-enthusiasts in other countries. His book "Pioneer Writers of Iran", which is a selection of literary works of 20th Century Iranian writers, along with his review of their works, is among the educational literary sources which are being taught in many universities in Iran.
He also tried his hand at acting and appeared in films by Amir Qavidel, Nasser Taghva’ee and Ali Hatami. Sepanlou, with his poetry collections, not only wrote historical material about Teheran, but also created masterful poetry.
Sepanlou was always a vocal supporter of freedom of speech and press freedom – he was very active on freedom of speech in particular.
Sepanlou was definitely one of the people subject to censorship and one of those who suffered because of lieutenant Some of his works were either not printed at all, or if they were, only in strictly censored form. But he never really gave up.
Some of his works were printed abroad to evade censorship.
However, there are also a few works that Sepanlou wrote but that haven"t been published to this day. In one of his latest interview he complained about the situation and said he was considering giving up writing entirely.
He died in Tehran in 2015.