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  • NarrativeБаёноти сайёҳи ҳиндӣAbdurauf Fitrat · 1912not translated into EnglishA Bukharan student settled in Istanbul writes to awaken the emirate, which the Jadid reformists want to modernise.Literature
  • NovelДохундаSadriddin Aini · 1930not translated into EnglishTen years after the fall of the emir, a former student of the madrasas of Bukhara tells in Tajik of the collapse of the old regime.Literature
  • EpicГӯрғулӣAnonymous · 1930not translated into EnglishThe cycle is sung through a whole night to a long-necked lute, and the collections gathered since the thirties amount to some hundred thousand lines.Literature
  • PoetryШукуфаи адабиётPairav Sulaimoni · 1931not translated into EnglishThe collection still appears in Arabic script; the next one, the following year, will be printed in the Latin alphabet.Literature
  • PoetryКова оҳангарAbulqosim Lohuti · 1939not translated into EnglishA poet who came from Iran and became one of the official voices of Soviet Tajikistan retells an episode from Ferdowsi's Book of Kings.Literature
  • PoetryҚиссаи ҲиндустонMirzo Tursunzoda · 1948not translated into EnglishIndia is on the eve of its independence, which will be proclaimed in August 1947.Literature
  • NovelОдамони ҷовидRahim Jalil · 1949not translated into EnglishA classic of Tajik socialist realism, on the revolutionary awakening of the workers of the north.Literature
  • CinemaA Poet's FateСудьба поэтаBoris Kimyagarov · 1959The Tajik studio celebrates Rudaki, a tenth-century poet whom the republic regards as the founder of its literature.Cinema
  • NovelДухтари оташJalol Ikromi · 1962not translated into EnglishThe first part of a trilogy on Bukhara before the revolution, translated into Russian then into French in the sixties.Literature
  • NarrativeДар он дунёFazliddin Muhammadiev · 1965not translated into EnglishThe only fictionalised account of the pilgrimage to Mecca published in the Soviet Union, by a Tajik writer who had made it.Literature
  • PoetryShabdaravGulrukhsor Safieva · 1975not translated into EnglishA poetic essay on the home front in wartime, by the principal female voice of Tajik poetry.Literature
  • PoetryГули хорBozor Sobir · 1978not translated into EnglishSix years after his first book, the poet works in the press in Dushanbe, ten years before the State Prize that will bring him recognition.Literature
  • PoetryПоэмы странствийTimur Zulfikarov · 1980not translated into EnglishAn author from Dushanbe, the son of a Tajik father and a Russian orientalist mother, rewrites the legends of the Persian world in Russian.Literature
  • PoetryХоки ватанLoiq Sherali · 1981not translated into EnglishThe title means “the land of the homeland”.Literature
  • CinemaВ талом снеге звон ручьяDavlat Khudonazarov · 1982A Tajik shepherd keeps the memory of a war fought far from his mountains, forty years earlier.Cinema
  • CinemaAdonis XIVАдонис XIVBako Sadykov · 1986An apprentice filmmaker shoots a silent fable that Soviet censorship will judge too clear to be shown.Cinema
  • NovelФирдавсӣSotim Ulughzoda · 1986not translated into EnglishA novel on Ferdowsi and the composition of the Shahnameh, one of the last works of a master of Tajik prose.Literature
  • CinemaKosh ba koshКош ба кошBakhtyar Khudojnazarov · 1993A year after independence, civil war breaks out in Tajikistan and reaches the capital.Cinema
  • CinemaThe Flight of the BeeParvaz-e zanburJamshed Usmonov and Min Byung-hun · 1998At the end of the civil war, two young filmmakers trained in Moscow shoot in a village with a few tens of thousands of dollars.Cinema