Iraj Pezeshkzad (ایرج پزشکزاد‎), born in 1928 in Tehran, Iran, is an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel Dā'i Jān Napoleon (Dear Uncle Napoleon) published in the early 1970s.

He was educated in Iran and France, where he received his degree in Law. He served as a judge in the Iranian Judiciary for five years prior to joining the Iranian Foreign Service.

He began writing in the early 1950s by translating the works of Voltaire and Molière into Persian and by writing short stories for magazines.  He is currently living in Paris where he works as a journalist.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraj_Pezeshkzad