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).