Asemun Rismun

IRAJ PEZESHKZAD was born in Tehran in 1928, and educated in Iran and France where he received his degree in Law. He served as a judge in the Iranian Judiciary for five years prior to joining the Iranian Foreign Service. He began writing in the early 1950s by translating the works of Voltaire and Molière into Persian and by writing short stories for magazines. His most well known work is Uncle Napoleon which was made into a very popular television series in Iran and which has been recently translated into English. His other works include Haji Mam-Ja'far in Paris, and Mashalah Khan in the Court of Haroun al-Rashid. He has also written several plays and various articles on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905, the French Revolution, and the Russian Revolution. He presently lives in Paris, where he works as a journalist.