sentences:  He "examines the complexities and moral ambiguities of the experience of the poor and forgotten, mixing the brutality of that world with the lyricism of the Persian language," said Kamran Rastegar, a translator of Dowlatabadi's work.When Tom Patterdale translated Dowlatabadi's "The Colonel", he avoided Latinate English words in favor of Anglo-Saxon ones, hoping to reproduce the effect Dowlatabadi's "rough and ready" prose.Most other Iranian writers come from solidly middle-class backgrounds, with urban educations.