Gʻafur Gʻulom

Gʻafur Gʻulom was born on 10 May 1903 in Tashkent, into a poor family; his father, a scholar and poet, died when he was nine. Educated at a Muslim school, then at a Russian-native school and as a primary teacher, he taught, headed the curriculum of an orphanage in 1923 and worked for several newspapers. A poet, member of the Academy of Sciences in 1943, winner of the Stalin Prize in 1946, translator of Pushkin, Shakespeare and Saadi, he is regarded as one of the founders of modern Uzbek poetry. He died in Tashkent on 10 July 1966.

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