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, , 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 Peraison:سندروم نبراسکا ) ,My red ass baboons (in Persian:انتران کون سرخ من)
References[]
- ^ Newsweek, October, 1995, page 37.
- ^ "و خدایان دوشنبهها میخندند". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- ^ "Iran publishers want protection after attack". groups.google.com. 14 Sep 1995. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "نشر مرغ آمین Morgh-e-Amin publishing house". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- ^ "UN Commission on Human Rights - Report on the mission of the Special Rapporteur to Iran (Mar 96)". hrlibrary.umn.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- ^ http://www.iran-e-azad.org/english/boi/02390825.95
- ^ Newsweek,October,1995,page 37.
- ^ Cultural Censorship in Iran
- ^ "Ākhir-i Jughd". Ferdosi.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- ^ "Payghambar-i kallih kadū zīr-i sāʻat-i murdih". Ferdosi.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- ^ "Titrāktūs Chahār La'natī". Ferdosi.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- ^ Khushnaẓar, Riz̤ā (2014). Titrāktūs, chahār-i la'natī : [rumān] (1. chāp ed.). Stockholm: Gök (Fakhteh). ISBN 978-91-87975-05-9.
- ^ Khushnaẓar, Riz̤ā (2014). Ākhar-i Jughd : [rumān] (1. chāp ed.). Stockholm: Gök (Fakhteh). ISBN 978-91-87975-04-2.
- ^ 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.
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