ارمغان تاشقند

by Gafur Gulyam, قمر رئیس (Translator)

133 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1968

About the author

Gafur Gulyam was born on April 27 (May 10), 1903 in Tashkent in a peasant family. His father loved to read poems by Uzbek and Tajik poets, he knew Russian and wrote poetry himself. The poets Mukimi, Furkat, Asiri, Khislat and others visited their house.

Since the fall of 1916, Gafur began to study at the school. After the death of his father, and then his mother, he was a street child. He tried dozens of professions. During the Civil War he was admitted to the orphanage. He began to work as a typesetter in a printing house and study at pedagogical courses. He graduated from the Tashkent Pedagogical Institute. In 1919-1927 he worked as a teacher, director of the school, chairman of the Union of Education Workers, and was involved in the organization of children's boarding schools and reception centers.

Since 1923, he began to publish his first poems, as well as essays and humorous stories. The first poem by G. Gulyam “Children of Felix”, which tells about orphans, was published in the journal “Maorif wa ukituvchi” in 1923. According to G. Gulyam himself, the work of V.V. Mayakovsky had a strong influence on his work. Translated into the Uzbek language the works of A. S. Griboedov, M. Yu. Lermontov, V.V. Mayakovsky, N. Hikmet, S. Rustaveli, Nizami, Dante, P. Beaumarchais, W. Shakespeare.

Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (1943).

Titles, awards and prizes
- The Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946) - for the poem collection "Coming from the East" (1943)
- The Lenin Prize (1970 - posthumous) - for verses of recent years
- three orders of Lenin
- two orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1939; 05/05/1963)
- order “Badge of Honor”
- another order and medals