Reza Khoshnazar

Reza Khoshbin-e Khoshnazar (Persian: رضا خوش‌بين خوش‌نظر) is an Iranian novelist who published his first novel, The Gods Laugh on Mondays in 1995 when he was in his twenties.^[1] The reaction was hot and some conservative papers accused him of writing blasphemy^[2][3] and some zealots compared him with Salman Rushdie.^[4] Eventually, men came in the night and torched his publisher book shop, Morghe-Amin Publication House, in Tehran.^[5][6][7][8]

Author Khoshnazar has published six other novels in Sweden by Ferdosi Publication House entitled: The Prophet with the Head like a Squash in the Shadow of Dead Clock (in Persian: پيغمبر كلّه كدو زير ساعت مرده), The End of Owl (in Persian:آخر جغد), tetraktus, the Damn Four (in Persian :تتراكتوس، چهار لعنتي),Squint eyed and eyes of crows (in Persian:لوچ ها و چشم آغول ها), Nebraska Syndrome (in Persian: سندروم نبراسکا ), My red ass baboons (in Persian: انتران کون سرخ من)

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References

1. Newsweek, October, 1995, page 37.
2. "و خدایان دوشنبه‌ها می‌خندند". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
3. "Iran publishers want protection after attack". groups.google.com. 14 Sep 1995. Retrieved 2020-09-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
4. "نشر مرغ آمین Morgh-e-Amin publishing house". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
5. "UN Commission on Human Rights - Report on the mission of the Special Rapporteur to Iran (Mar 96)". hrlibrary.umn.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
6. http://www.iran-e-azad.org/english/boi/02390825.95^{[bare URL plain text file]}
7. Newsweek,October,1995,page 37.
8. Cultural Censorship in Iran
9. "Ākhir-i Jughd". Ferdosi.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
10. "Payghambar-i kallih kadū zīr-i sāʻat-i murdih". Ferdosi.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
11. "Titrāktūs Chahār La'natī". Ferdosi.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
12. Khushnaẓar, Riz̤ā (2014). Titrāktūs, chahār-i la'natī : [rumān] (1. chāp ed.). Stockholm: Gök (Fakhteh). ISBN 978-91-87975-05-9.
13. Khushnaẓar, Riz̤ā (2014). Ākhar-i Jughd : [rumān] (1. chāp ed.). Stockholm: Gök (Fakhteh). ISBN 978-91-87975-04-2.
14. Khushnaẓar, Riz̤ā (2014). Piyghambar-i kallih kadū zīr-i sāʻat-i murdih : [rumān] (1. chāp ed.). Stockholm: Gök (Fakhteh). ISBN 978-91-87975-02-8.