Author · Tajikistan
Mirzo Tursunzoda
Died in 1977
Mirzo Tursunzoda was born on 19 April 1911 in Karatag, in the khanate of Hissar, then subject to the emir of Bukhara, the son of a carpenter. Trained at the Tajik Institute of Education in Tashkent, he published his first collections in the thirties and from 1946 chaired the Writers' Union of his republic. A People's Poet of Tajikistan, he received the Lenin Prize in 1960 for two of his poems. He died in Dushanbe on 24 September 1977.
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- PoetryҚиссаи ҲиндустонMirzo Tursunzoda · 1948not translated into EnglishLiterature