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Jalol Ikromi

Died in 1993

Jalol Ikromi was born in 1909 in Bukhara, into a family of qadis. He studied in Bukhara and Samarkand and published his first story in 1927, after Sadriddin Aini had persuaded him to leave poetry for prose. Settled in Dushanbe in 1930, he wrote novels, stories and plays, brought works by Aini to the stage and translated Russian writers into Tajik. He received the title of People's Writer of Tajikistan and died in 1993.

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