Abdulla Qahhor Writer

Abdulla Qahhor (sometimes spelled Abdulla Kahhar in English) (Uzbek: Abdulla Qahhor, Абдулла Қаҳҳор) (September 17, 1907 – May 25, 1968) was an Uzbek novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and literary translator. He is best remembered as the author of the 1951 novel Qoʻshchinor chiroqlari (The Lights of Qoʻshchinor) and the 1958 story Sinchalak. In addition to writing numerous short stories and novels, Qahhor translated the works of many famous Russian writers, such as Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, and Nikolai Gogol into the Uzbek language. In particular, he translated The Captain's Daughter of Pushkin, Marriage and The Government Inspector of Gogol, and, together with his wife Kibriyo Qahhorova, War and Peace of Leo Tolstoy.Qahhor is considered to be one of the best Uzbek writers of the 20th century and has been called the "Chekhov" of Uzbeks. He received the prestigious State Stalin Prize in 1952 and a National Writer of the Uzbek SSR award in 1967. In 2000, Qahhor was posthumously awarded the National Order of Merit (Uzbek: Buyuk xizmatlari uchun), one of independent Uzbekistan's most prestigious awards.

Personal facts

Abdulla Qahhor
Alias (AKA)Abdulla Kahhar (alternative spelling); Қаҳҳор Абдулла (Uzbek); Каххар Абдулла (Russian)
Birth dateSeptember 17, 1907
Birth place
Kokand
Date of deathMay 25, 1968
Place of death
Moscow , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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Writer

influenced
Erkin Vohidov
Said Ahmad
Utkir Hoshimov
influenced by
movement
Literary realism

Topical connections

Abdulla Qahhor on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.muzei-tashkenta.narod.ru/Abdulla-Kahhar-e.htm