Timur Zulfikarov

Timur Zulfikarov was born on 17 August 1936 in Dushanbe. His father, Kasym Zulfikarov, a Tajik official, fell victim to the repressions of 1937; his mother, who was Russian, taught linguistics. After studying philosophy in Leningrad, he graduated in 1961 from the Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow and in 1962 became a screenwriter at the Tajikfilm studio. Later settled in Moscow, he has written poems, plays and novels in Russian, including a cycle devoted to Khodja Nasreddin, continued until 2021.

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• PoetryПоэмы странствийTimur Zulfikarov · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature