Chubak was a translator of western novels and stories into Persian. Before writing Tangsir. The author translated books including Pinocchio and some of Eugene O'Neill's plays. Tangsir's events have really occurred in Bushehr in the past. Rasoul Parvizi, an Iranian writer wrote a short story in his 1957 short story collection, The Patched Pants (in Persian: شلوارهای وصلهدار) named Shir Mohammad (the name of the hero of the Tangsir novel) and Chubak had been influenced by that story.[6]