Reza Khoshnazar
Reza Khoshbin-e Khoshnazar ( in Persian:رضا خوشبين خوشنظر ) is an Iranian novelist who published his first novel, The Gods Laugh on Mondays (in Persian: و خدايان دوشنبهها ميخندند ), in 1995 when he was in his twenties.[1] The reaction was hot and some conservative papers accused him of writing blasphemy.[2][3] Eventually, men came night and torched his publisher book shop (Morghe- Amin Publication House) in Tehran.[4][5][6][7][8] Author Khoshnazar has published three 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 Payghambar-i kallih kadū zīr-i sāʻat-i murdih ), The End of Owl (in Persian:آخر جغد Ākhir-i Jughd), tetraktus, the Damn Four (in Persian :تتراكتوس، چهار لعنتي Titrāktūs Chahār La‘natī). [9][10][11][12][13][14]