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ABDURAUF FITRAT
Abdurauf Fitrat holds an important place in Uzbek literature as a poet and a scholar, a teacher and a write. He was born in 1886 in Bukhara to an educated family. He was educated at Istanbul Madrasah and University. As he knew Arabic, Farsi and Turkish he could read the famous books of Asia. Because his father was a man of trade, they stayed in Kashgar until 1918. Fitrat went to Turkey in 1909 and studied at the university until 1913. His first literary works were published there. The professors of the university were astonished by his capacity and poetic talent. He was given the pen name Fitrat, which means "wise". He wrote a lot of poems, novels and plays. He wrote the textbooks "Uzbek Literature" and "Uzbek Language". He wanted his people to be educated. Books and source materials written in Arabic script became completely foreign and unknown to the generations born after 1920. But some materials were kept by intellectuals. In 1991 on September 25 he was posthumously given an Alisher Navoi Republic State Award for his great contribution to Uzbek literature.
ZULFIA
Zulfia is a well-known Uzbek poetess, translator and public figure. Zulfia is a real representative of Uzbek women. Zulfia was born in 1915 in a large and poor family. At the age of 7 she went to school and got an elementary education. To be a teacher was her aim, so in 1939 she began to study at the Women's Pedagogical School. Zulfia literary carrier began with the publication of the collections of verses called "The Pages of Life" (1932), "The Songs of Girls" and "Poetry" (1939). Since that time she published many collections of verses. Among them we can name her famous poem "Mushoira". Zulfia is known to be a good translator too. She translated into Uzbek the works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Shevchenko and many other Russian poets. The People's poetess, Zulfia, is famous not only in our country. Her poems are translated into English, French, German, Indian, Arabic and many other languages.