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Sadriddin Aini

Died in 1954

Sadriddin Aini was born on 15 April 1878 in Soktare, near Ghijduvan, under the emir of Bukhara, and studied in the madrasas of the city, including that of Mir-i Arab. Won over to the Jadid reformists, he rallied to the revolution and moved from poetry to prose, writing the first novel in his language, then a series of novels on Tajik life and, from 1949 to 1954, memoirs in four volumes. First president of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, he died in Dushanbe on 15 July 1954.

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