Draft:Amir Ashiri

Amir Ashiri (born 1924 in Tehran - died on 16 June 2016) was an Iranian writer. He is the founder of Crime Fiction in Iran. He also wrote on historical subjects. Amir Ashiri gained his fame by writing Feuilleton in in the 1950s to the 1970s.

Life
Amir Ashiri was born in 1924 in Tehran. He was among the second generation of Iranian Feuilleton writers and one of the followers of Hosseinqoli Mosta'an's style. Ashiri was interested in espionage issues since he was a teenager, and apparently this led him to write crime stories. There is not much information about his life. He was an employee of the Ministry of Industries and Mines, but he earned most of his income through journalism and writing. Ashiri had two daughters named "Rima" (his eldest child) and "Yegane" and a son named "Abdul Reza". His son works as a lawyer and a member of Tehran Bar Association. Ashiri left the country during the prime ministership of Mohammad Mossadegh and studied in Germany for a while. But after the American-led August 28 coup, he returned to the country.

Style
Many and sometimes conflicting opinions have been expressed about the style and manner of Ashiri's writing. Some have considered him to be a native writer who had a talent for writing by nature, and some have called him an imitator and follower of Western works. Also, conflicting views have been expressed regarding whether he can be called the "father of crime fiction" in Iran or not.

Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, after reading Ashiri's book "Black Khan", was so fascinated by her pen that called him "Alexandre Dumas" of Iran.

His Main Characters
One of the most famous characters in Ashiri's stories, which is present in several of his works, is a character named "Captain Ramin". This hero is a disciplined and precise Iranian whose intelligence, physical strength, and facial beauty help him solve puzzles. This character gained such fame in a period that a girl expressed her readiness to marry him through a letter, and another person came to Tehran from Khorasan to see him closely, and Ashiri was forced to tell him that Ramin is traveling in Europe as an excuse for the impossibility of this meeting. The character of "Ramin" is present in some Ashiri police stories (such as: A smile at a funeral, blood and image, a bullet for you, a path in the dark). Also, another constant character named "Taher" is present in some of Ashiri's spy novels (such as: The Battle of Shadows, At the Border of Terror, Wall of the Ocean).