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Author · Uzbekistan

Abdulla Qodiriy

Died in 1938

Abdulla Qodiriy was born in Tashkent in 1894. He attended the Muslim school and then a Russian school for natives, was a clerk for merchants and also worked as a gardener to help his old father. After the revolution, he wrote hundreds of articles, founded a satirical magazine and translated from Russian, among others, Gogol and Chekhov. Arrested on 31 December 1937 as an enemy of the people, he was shot in Tashkent on 4 October 1938, at the age of forty-four, on the same day as two other Uzbek writers.

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