Author · Uzbekistan
Emin Usmon
Died in 2001
Emin Usmon was born in 1945 in Ghulja, in Eastern Turkestan, into a Uyghur family that settled in Tashkent in the fifties. Coming to letters through journalism, he worked for the magazine Guliston, then for two publishing houses, and wrote stories and a novel in the seventies and eighties; he left more than twenty books, in Uzbek, Uyghur and Russian. Arrested a first time in 1999 and then amnestied, he was arrested again in February 2001 and died in detention at the end of the same month.
In the catalogue 1
- EssayQirolning libosi bormi?Emin Usmon · 1989not translated into EnglishLiterature