Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies


              In this photo provided by Stanford Iranian Studies Program, Iranian author Iraj Pezeshkzad speaks at an event for Stanford University's Iranian Studies Program while receiving the Seventh Annual Bita Prize for Persian Arts in Stanford, California, on Nov. 7, 2014. Pezeshkzad, an Iranian author whose bestselling comic novel, "My Uncle Napoleon," lampooned Persian culture's self-aggrandizing and paranoid behavior as the country entered the modern era, died Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2021. He was 94. (Roozbeh Jafarzadeh/Stanford Iranian Studies Program via AP)
            
              In this photo provided by Stanford Iranian Studies Program, Iranian author Iraj Pezeshkzad speaks at an event for Stanford University's Iranian Studies Program while receiving the Seventh Annual Bita Prize for Persian Arts in Stanford, California, on Nov. 7, 2014. Pezeshkzad, an Iranian author whose bestselling comic novel, "My Uncle Napoleon," lampooned Persian culture's self-aggrandizing and paranoid behavior as the country entered the modern era, died Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2021. He was 94. (Roozbeh Jafarzadeh/Stanford Iranian Studies Program via AP)
Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies