Mukhtar, Askad

Mukhtar, Askad
Mukhtar, Askad
Date of Birth	December 23, 1920
Place of Birth	Ferghana , Turkestan ASSR
Date of death	April 17, 1997 (76 years old)
Place of death	Tashkent , Uzbekistan
Occupation	poet , prose writer , translator
Language of Works	Uzbek

Askad Mukhtar ( Uzbek: Asqad Muxtor, Asқad Mukhtor , December 23, 1920 — April 17, 1997) is an Uzbek writer, poet and translator. Laureate of the Republican Prize. Hamza (for the novel "Chinara", 1973). People's writer of the Uzbek SSR (1980).

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Biography

Askad Mukhtar was born in a working class family on December 23, 1920 in the city of Fergana (now in Uzbekistan ). At 11 years old he was left an orphan. Higher education received at the Faculty of Philology of the Central Asian University, which he graduated in 1942. From 1957 to 1969 he was secretary of the Writers' Union of the Uzbek SSR . He worked in Sharq Yulduzi and Guliston magazines. He headed the department of Uzbek literature at the Andijan Pedagogical Institute.

Creativity

The first works of Mukhtar were published in 1938. His poem “The Steelworker” (Plat Kuyuvchi), published in 1947, introduced the theme of the working class into Uzbek poetry. It was followed by collections of "My Fellow Citizens" and "City of Steel." The first major prose work of Mukhtar was the novel "Sisters", which saw the light in 1954. Later, the novels “Birth” (Tuғilish), “Time in My Fate” (Davr mening ta-dirimda), “Chinara” (Chinor) and “Amu” came out from Mukhtar’s pen. Mukhtar touched upon the revolutionary themes in the story “Karakalpak story” and the poem “Involved in immortality”.

Mukhtar translated a number of works by A. S. Pushkin , M. Yu. Lermontov , M. Gorky , V.V. Mayakovsky , A. A. Blok , T. G. Shevchenko into Uzbek.

Rewards

2 orders of the Red Banner of Labor (03/18/1959; ...)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (12/22/1980)
medal "For Labor Distinction"
other medals

Links

Mukhtar Askad - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .