Abdulla Qahhor
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Abdulla Qahhor (sometimes spelled Abdulla Kahhar in English) (Uzbek: Abdulla Qahhor, Абдулла Қаҳҳор) (September 17, 1907 – May 24, 1968) was a Soviet and Uzbek novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and literary translator. He is best remembered as the author of the 1951 novel Qoʻshchinor chiroqlari (The Lights of Qoʻshchinor) and the 1958 novella Sinchalak.
Abdulla Qahhor Абдулла Қаҳҳор | |
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Born | Abdulla Qahhorov (1907-09-17)September 17, 1907 Kokand, Fergana Oblast, Russian Empire |
Died | May 24, 1968(1968-05-24) (aged 60) Moscow, Soviet Union |
Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and literary translator |
Literary movement | Realism |
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Qahhor is considered to be one of the best Uzbek writers of the 20th century, and has been called the "Chekhov" of Uzbeks.[1][2] He received the prestigious Stalin Prize in 1952,[3] and became a National Writer of the Uzbek SSR in 1967.[4] In 2000, Qahhor was posthumously awarded the National Order of Merit (Uzbek: Buyuk xizmatlari uchun), one of independent Uzbekistan's most prestigious awards.