Ali Ashraf Darvishian, also known as Latif Takhistan, was a noble man of the turbulent years. After years of writing and depicting the pains of the deprived class, he left this chaotic world at the age of 76. The purpose of this text is not to criticize the essence of Darvishian’s works or to analyze them; this note – as its name suggests – will try to focus on a subject that has always been at the center of Darvishian’s writings, a subject that may seem strange and incomprehensible to some. Darvishian, who belonged to a generation of Iranian leftist writers – perhaps the last of them – were writers who, in addition to their literary work, also played the role of a political activist and served as a platform for expressing political and social ideas, and were the voice of a society that had been shouldered by poets alone for years. The history of realist literature and the focus on the suffering

Dervishes, according to the belief of all individuals, regardless of their political and ideological inclinations, were one of the most noble contemporary writers and a faithful illustrator for a class that he represented. The importance of his writing was not getting involved in appearances, which distances us from the reality of the situation, and remaining true to his own class. Ali Asghar Dervishian, both in the years before the revolution when he spent long periods in prison for his writing, and in the years after the revolution when he was a member of the Society of Iranian Writers despite his illness and endured great pressure in defending freedom of expression and emphasizing that “we are writers,” never wavered in his human beliefs and opposition to injustice. His name was respected and his memory eternal.