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][1][7]

Author Khoshnazar has published six other novels in Sweden with Ferdosi Publication House entitled: The Prophet with the Head like a Squash in the Shadow of Dead Clock (Persian: پيغمبر كلّه كدو زير ساعت مرده),[8][9] The End of Owl (Persian: آخر جغد),[10][11] Tetraktus, the Damn Four (Persian: تتراكتوس، چهار لعنتي),[12][13] Squint eyed and eyes of crows (Persian: لوچ ها و چشم آغول ها), Nebraska Syndrome (Persian: سندروم نبراسکا),[14] and My red ass baboons (Persian: انتران کون سرخ من).

References

  1. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ "نشر مرغ آمین Morgh-e-Amin publishing house". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  5. ^ "Report on the mission of the Special Rapporteur to Iran". hrlibrary.umn.edu. UN Commission on Human Rights. 11 March 1996. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Brief on Iran No. 239". Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran. August 25, 1995. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  7. ^ Khalaji, Mostafa (July 2011). "Cultural Censorship in Iran: Iranian Culture in a State of Emergency" (PDF). pp. 22–23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2017.
  8. ^ "Payghambar-i kallih kadū zīr-i sāʻat-i murdih". Ferdosi.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Ākhir-i Jughd". Ferdosi.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  11. ^ Khushnaẓar, Riz̤ā (2014). Ākhar-i Jughd : [rumān] (1. chāp ed.). Stockholm: Gök (Fakhteh). ISBN 978-91-87975-04-2.
  12. ^ "Titrāktūs Chahār La'natī". Ferdosi.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  13. ^ Khushnaẓar, Riz̤ā (2014). Titrāktūs, chahār-i la'natī : [rumān] (1. chāp ed.). Stockholm: Gök (Fakhteh). ISBN 978-91-87975-05-9.
  14. ^ Sandrom-e-Nebraska سندروم نبراسکا. Stockholm: Ferdosi Publication. 2021. ISBN 9789187359781.


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