Sobir Abdulla


Sobir Abdullayev, known by the name Sobir Abdulla, was an Uzbek-Soviet writer, poet, playwright, and literary translator. Abdulla received many prestigious awards for his works, including the State Hamza Prize and the titles Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR and the People's Poet of the Uzbek SSR.

Life

Sobir Abdullayev was born on in Kokand to an Uzbek family. He received his primary education from an Islamic school and then attended a secular Soviet school.
Abdulla became a member of the Communist Party in 1945. He died on 24 October 1972 in Tashkent.

Work

From 1925 to 1948, Abdulla worked at the editorial offices of various periodical publishers in the Uzbek SSR. His first poetry collections were published in the 1930s, starting with Erk ilhomlari in 1931 and followed by works such as Koʻklam naʼrasi published in 1932 and Gulshan published in 1939. He also wrote story collections, such as Ulfat, which was published in 1937.
Abdulla went on to experiment with other genres, writing the script for the drama Tohir and Zuhra and later a movie and an opera based on the same story. Over his career, he wrote numerous other prose works.

Awards and accolades