Bozor Sobir

Bozor Sobir was born on 20 November 1938 in Sufiyon, in the Faizobod district, into a peasant family. A graduate in Tajik philology from the State University in 1962, he was a journalist, a translator in Afghanistan, then poetry adviser to the Writers' Union from 1979 to 1989, and received the Rudaki Prize in 1988. A co-founder of the Democratic Party, imprisoned in 1993 and 1994, he afterwards taught Tajik at the University of Washington. He died in Seattle in 2018 and was buried in Dushanbe.

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• PoetryГули хорBozor Sobir · 1978not translated into EnglishLiterature