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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Prize, as well as the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme

Soviet of Tajikistan.

 

Hoshimov passed away in the early 1990s.

Hoshimov, Rahim

Tajik author and translator Rahim Muhammadovich Hoshimov, also

referred to as Rahim Hoshim, was born to a family of perfume sellers in

Samarqand on October 5, 1908. He joined the CPSU in 1943.

When still a student, he worked for the Samarqand Daily, as well as

for the Ma'orif and Rahbari Donish monthlies. Between 1934 and 1936,

he was an employee of Tajikistan State Publications, and in 1955, be-

came a Scientific Researcher for the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

Recognized as an enemy of the people on February 2, 1938, he was im-

prisoned for ten years. He went to prison again for ten years on the

same charge in 1951 but was released and rehabilitated in 1954.

Hoshimov has written extensively on the works of Chekhov, Gorkii,

Ibn Sina, Firdowsi, Aini, Lahuti, Payrav Sulaymoni, and others. He has

contributed to Farhangi Rusi Tojiki (Russian-Tajiki Dictionary, 1933)

and Farhangi Zaboni Tojiki (A Dictionary of the Tajiki Language,

1969). His major contributions include Dostonhoi Shohnomai Firdowsi

(The Stories of the Shahname of Firdowsi, 1937), Majmu'ai Ash'ori

Malak al-Shu'ra Bahor (A Compilation of the Poetry of Malak al-

Shu'ara Bahar, 1959), Namunai Ash'ori Shu'aroi Mu'osiri Afghoniston

(Samples of the Poetry of Contemporary Poets of Afghanistan, 1960),

Paikarai Buzurgi Nazm (The Lofty Stature of Poetry, 1964), Shu'aroi

Tojik (Tajik Poets, with M. Levin and R. Hodizoda, 1972), Ibn Sina

(Avicenna, 1975), Bo Amri Vijdon (Ordered by Conscience, with Rodi

Fisher, 1979) , and Sukhan az Ustodon va Duston (Speaking About the

Masters and Friends, 1983).

Hoshimov joined the Union of Writers of Tajikistan in 1960. He

won the Rudaki State Prize in 1970, and the Sadriddin Aini Prize in

1993. He is also the recipient of the Order of Lenin, three Orders of the

Red Banner of Labor, the Badge of Honor, the Friendship Among

People award.

Hoshimov died on October 24, 1993 in Dushanbe.

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