Poetry
Shabdarav
Not translated into English
Gulrukhsor Safieva · 1975
Synopsis
Shabdarav (Harvest Night): in a remote region of Tajikistan, during the Second World War, this text in verse tells of what women and old people, far from the front, contribute to the war effort.
Context
The text appeared in 1975 in Dushanbe from Irfon, two years after a first collection, The Father's House, distinguished in 1973 by the Tajik youth literary prize, and two years before The Universe of the Heart. Iraj Bashiri classes it among her poetic essays and places it in the relative loosening that followed the Khrushchev era. No book by the author has appeared in French; isolated poems have been translated into English and Spanish, and The Mirror of the Day, a collection of 1984, appeared with a preface by Chingiz Aitmatov.
Who it is for
For discovering a major Tajik woman poet through a text on a remote region at war, without a French or English translation.
Prizes and reception
Iraj Bashiri counts it among the author's realist texts that show the shortcomings of the Soviet system.
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