Poetry
Хоки ватан
Not translated into English
Loiq Sherali · 1981
Synopsis
A collection published in 1981, printed in Persian script. No source describes it in its own right: Iranica says of the work that it revolves around the struggle of life and death, justice and injustice, loyalty and deceit, and that it regards the village as the place of moral purity.
Context
Loiq Sherali had published his first collection fifteen years earlier, in 1966. Iranica notes that his poetry is concerned with the psychology of the individual rather than with making men the agents of social transformation. A selection of his verse appeared in Iran in 1994, and his complete works began to be gathered in 2008; he himself translated several masterpieces of literature into Persian.
Who it is for
For readers interested in classical Persian poetry as it is still practised in Tajikistan.
Prizes and reception
He received the Iranian Nilufar Prize in 1999, and Tajikistan calls him its king of poets.