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Author · Uzbekistan

Tohir Malik

Died in 2019

Tohir Malik, whose real name was Tohir Habilov, was born on 27 December 1946 in Tashkent, into a military family. The post-war years prevented him from attending secondary school, and he learned from his elders. Admitted in 1963 to the University of Tashkent, he studied journalism there in evening classes. As a student, he wrote what is regarded as the first fantasy story in Uzbek literature. Named People's Writer of Uzbekistan in 2000, he died on 16 May 2019, aged seventy-two.

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