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Tajikistan

Author · Tajikistan

Pairav Sulaimoni

Died in 1933

Otajon Payrav Sulaymoni was born on 15 April 1899 in Bukhara, into a family of Tajik merchants. Educated in a Persian madrasa in Merv, then at the Russian school in Kagan in 1916 and 1917, he was in 1921 and 1922 second secretary of the embassy of the Republic of Bukhara in Afghanistan, before becoming an editor and translator at the State Publishing House of Tajikistan. He translated Gogol and Soviet novels into Tajik, signed his satires with a pseudonym and died on 9 June 1933.

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