Zulfiya (poet)
Zulfiya (Cyrillic Зульфия , full name Zulfiya Isroilova , Russian Зульфия Исраилова Sulfija Israilowa * 1 . Jul / 14. January 1915 greg. In Tashkent , † 1996 ibid) was an Uzbek writer.
Zulfiya came from a Tashkent family of foundries and craftsmen. Her first poem in an Uzbek newspaper was published on July 17, 1931 in Ishchi ("Workers"), her first collection of poems ( Hayot varaqlari , "Pages of Life") appeared in 1932. In the following decades she wrote patriotic works as well as propagandistic, pacifist ones and those related to nature and women.
From 1938 Zulfiya worked for various publishers and was a member of several national and inter-republican organizations, several times she was director or editor-in-chief of various media. After the accidental death of her husband Hamid Olimjon in 1944, she dedicated several works to him. In 1953 she joined the CPSU . In 1956 she was part of a delegation of Soviet writers under Konstantin Simonow that took place at the Asian Writers' Conference in Delhi . In 1957 she took part in the Asian-African Solidarity Conference in Cairo .
Zulfiya was named "National Poet" (1965) and " Heroine of Socialist Labor " (1984); In 1976 she was the winner of the State Prize of the USSR for literature and art. After her death in 1996, an Uzbek State Prize for Women was created in 1999, which was named after her.
literature
- Edward Allworth: Uzbek Literary Politics . Mouton & Co., The Hague 1964
- Article Sulphiya in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Web links
- Biography on uzlit.edunet.uz ( Memento from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zulfiya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Isroilova, Zulfiya (real name); Зульфия (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uzbek author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tashkent |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1996 |
| Place of death | Tashkent |