Rahim Jalil

Rahim Jalil was born in 1909 in Khujand, into a family of shoemakers. A schoolteacher from 1927, he was then for twenty years a journalist on the newspapers and reviews of Tajikistan, among them Tojikistoni surkh and Sharqi surkh, then secretary of the Writers' Union from 1952. A poet at first, he turned to prose, received the Rudaki Prize in 1970 and the title of People's Writer in 1979. He died in 1989 in his native town.

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• NovelОдамони ҷовидRahim Jalil · 1949not translated into EnglishLiterature