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• PoetryLayli va MajnunAlisher Navoiy · 1484not translated into EnglishHerat at the end of the fifteenth century, where learned poetry is written in Persian and where a vizier sets out to prove that Turkish can say everything.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeThe BaburnamaBoburnomaZahiriddin Muhammad Babur · 1530Ferghana, Kabul and India between 1494 and 1529, travelled by a prince who twice loses everything he has and ends up an emperor.Literature
• PoetrySubhonqulixon toʻgʻrisida hajviyaTurdi Faroghiy · 1691not translated into EnglishThe khanate of Bukhara at the end of the seventeenth century, torn between Uzbek clans, where a courtier kept away from power takes up the pen against his sovereign.Literature
• PoetryShahroshubSayido Nasafiy · 1700not translated into EnglishBukhara at the end of the seventeenth century, where a weaver who has sought protectors in vain turns to the craftsmen.Literature
• PoetryDevoni MashrabBoborahim Mashrab · 1700not translated into EnglishCentral Asia at the turn of the eighteenth century, where wandering dervishes go from town to town and their verses are passed on before being written down.Literature
• PoetryHusn u DilMuhammadniyoz Nishotiy · 1779not translated into EnglishEighteenth-century Khorezm, where narrative poetry in Turkic takes up the great Persian subjects, and from where a poet sets out to seek refuge in the neighbouring emirate.Literature
• PoetryMunis ul-ushshoqShermuhammad Munis · 1814not translated into EnglishThe court of Khiva at the beginning of the nineteenth century, where the khan keeps poets who are at the same time his chroniclers and his water-masters.Literature
• PoetryDevonMujrim Obid · 1820not translated into EnglishThe emirate of Bukhara at the turn of the nineteenth century, where literary circles and patrons are growing scarce, and where religious poetry holds first place.Literature
• TaleZarbulmasalMuhammad Sharif Gulxaniy · 1820not translated into EnglishThe Khanate of Kokand at the beginning of the nineteenth century, where the ruler, himself a poet, gathers a circle of men of letters at his court and commissions one of them to turn the sayings of the people into a narrative.Literature
• PoetryDevonNodira · 1840not translated into EnglishThe khanate of Kokand in the first half of the nineteenth century, where the court is a hearth of poetry and where several women hold their rank.Literature
• PoetryTaʻviz al-oshiqinMuhammad Rizo Ogahiy · 1864not translated into EnglishThe khanate of Khiva on the eve of the Russian protectorate, where the court still maintains poets and chroniclers writing in Chagatai, the literary language of the Turks of Central Asia.Literature
• NarrativeSarguzashtnomaFurqat · 1891not translated into EnglishRussian Turkestan in 1891, where the governorate has published since 1883 a newspaper in the language of the country, to which a few men of letters contribute their articles.Literature
• PoetrySayohatnomaMuqimiy · 1900not translated into EnglishThe Fergana Valley at the end of the nineteenth century, under Russian administration, where travel is on foot or on horseback.LiteraturePublic domain
• EssayQarolar falsafasiAnbar Otin · 1909not translated into EnglishRussian Turkestan at the beginning of the twentieth century, where a poet trained in a girls' school writes in prose what poetry no longer suffices to say.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatrePadarkushMahmudxoja Behbudiy · 1911not translated into EnglishTurkestan in the 1910s, where Muslim scholars defend the new school and seize on the theatre, a new form in the country, to make their case heard.Literature
• EssayMunozaraAbdurauf Fitrat · 1911not translated into EnglishThe emirate of Bukhara at the beginning of the twentieth century, where young reformers demand new schools against the masters of the madrasas.Literature
• PoetryDevoni NihoniyHamza Hakimzoda Niyoziy · 1914not translated into EnglishThe Fergana of the years before the revolution, where a young teacher at a new-method school still writes in the old forms.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryArmugʻonElbek · 1921not translated into EnglishTurkestan in the early twenties, where a circle of men of letters undertakes to give Uzbek an alphabet, a grammar and schoolbooks, and where poetry serves the same aim.Literature
• NovelDays Gone ByOʻtkan kunlarAbdulla Qodiriy · 1922The khanate of Kokand in the nineteenth century, some twenty years before the Russian conquest, seen from the Soviet Tashkent of the early twenties.Literature
• CinemaMoxov qizOleg Frelikh · 1928Uzbekistan in 1928, where the young Soviet cinema of Central Asia makes the fate of women its first subject.Cinema
• EpicAlpomishAnonymous · 1928The oases of Uzbekistan and the steppe, where bakhshi sing these epics to the accompaniment of a lute and pass on their art from school to school.Literature
• NovelNight and DayKecha va kunduzCho'lpon · 1936Russian Turkestan at the beginning of the twentieth century, where a native district chief holds his power from the colonial administration and his household from custom.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeThe Mischievous BoyShum bolaGʻafur Gʻulom · 1936The pranks of a Tashkent street urchin, on the run across pre-revolutionary Turkestan.Literature
• CinemaTohir va ZuhraNabi Ganiyev · 1945Wartime Uzbekistan, where the Soviet studios have withdrawn to, and where a filmmaker from the country brings to the screen a legend known throughout Central Asia.Cinema
• CinemaWhite, White StorksLaylak keldi, yoz boʻldiAli Khamraev · 1966Uzbekistan in the sixties, where the press calls for a fight against the survivals of the past, and where marriage is still decided within families.Cinema
• CinemaTendernessNezhnostElyor Ishmukhamedov · 1967A city of Central Asia in the year of the 1966 earthquake, when young filmmakers film its streets and its teenagers.Cinema
• CinemaTashkent, City of BreadTashkent, gorod khlebnyyShukhrat Abbasov · 1968Russia and Central Asia in the early twenties, when famine sends whole families onto the roads and a distant city passes for a granary.Cinema
• CinemaShum bolaDamir Salimov · 1977Soviet Uzbekistan in 1977, where the Tashkent studio brings to the screen a classic of Uzbek prose about poor childhood before the revolution.Cinema
• NovelOʻlmas qoyalarMamadali Mahmudov · 1981not translated into EnglishSoviet Uzbekistan of the early eighties, where the entry of the tsar's troops remains a state narrative and where writing it differently exposes whoever dares to.Literature
• CinemaSuyunchiMelis Abzalov · 1982Rural Uzbekistan of the early eighties, where the generation that built the collective farms watches the one that lives on them.Cinema
• CinemaThe SavageDikarKamara Kamalova · 1988The Soviet Union of the late eighties, where cinema can at last show the arrogance of the powerful and the silence of those who endure it.Cinema
• NarrativeAlvido, bolalikTohir Malik · 1989not translated into EnglishSoviet Uzbekistan in the late eighties, where adolescents with poor guidance slide into delinquency.Literature
• EssayQirolning libosi bormi?Emin Usmon · 1989not translated into EnglishUzbekistan in 1989, where it becomes possible to name those responsible for the purges and to call the official luminaries of letters to account.Literature
• CinemaSoldier's TaleSoldatskaya skazkaZulfikar Musakov · 1989The Soviet Union of 1989, where the end of prohibitions at last makes it possible to speak of what happens in the barracks.Cinema
• CinemaQirq quloq siriRashid Malikov · 1992Uzbekistan in 1992, the first year of independence, seen from a family house where an old man no longer has his place.Cinema
• NovelOtamdan qolgan dalalarTogʻay Murod · 1993not translated into EnglishThe Uzbekistan of cotton, where the plan made the land a factory and the peasant an executor of orders, seen from a village in the south during the last decades of the Soviet era.Literature
• CinemaThe OratorVoizYusup Razykov · 1998Uzbekistan in the early days of Soviet power, when the revolution tears the veil from women in households still governed by Muslim law.Cinema

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