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Faizullo, Habibullo

Tajik author and poet Habibullo Faizullo was born in Khavaling in

the town of Vose' of Kulab province in 1945.

Faizullo graduated from the Tajikistan State Pedagogical Institute in

1966, and from the Gorkii Literature Institute in Moscow in 1973.

Thereafter, he worked at Ma'orif va Madaniyyat, Javononi Tojikiston,

and Dairatul Ma'orifi Shavravii Tojik. His early poems were published

in the 1960s. The themes of his poems deal with patriotism. His contri-

butions include "Qatrai Boron" ("Raindrop, " 1966), "Dunyoi Javoni"

("Youthful Days," 1971), "Rozi Daryo" ("The Secret of the Sea, "

1974), "Didori Orizuho" ("Visiting Desires, " 1979), "Obshori Oftob"

("The Waterfall of the Sun," 1981), and "Armughon" ("Gift," 1987).

Faizullo joined the Union of the Writers of Tajikistan in 1976.

He died in 1980.