P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Mirzozoda, Kholiq

Tajik intellectual Kholiq Mirzozoda was born on May 11, 1911, into

a family of poor farmers in the village of Ravonak, near Samarqand. He

joined the CPSU in 1946.

Mirzozoda graduated from the Philology Department of Samarqand

State University in 1935, after which he relocated to Dushanbe, where

he taught at the high school and college levels. From 1958 to 1959, he

served as the director of the language and literature division of the

Academy of Sciences; between 1959 and 1985, he served as the head of

the literature division of the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute. Between

1987 and 1991, when he passed away, he was a professor at Samarqand

State University.

Mirzozoda's major works include Abu Abdullo Rudaki Asosguzori

Adabiyoti Tojik (Abu Abdullo Rudaki, Founder of Tajik Literature,

1958), Adabiyoti Kelosiki Tojik (Classical Tajik Literature, 1958),

Aqoidi Ziddi Dini dar Adabiyoti Tojik (Anti-Religious Ideas in Tajik

Literature, 1966), Nuqta Nazari Ziddi Dini dar Adabiyoti Kelosiki Fors

va Tojik (Anti-Religious Points of View in the Literatures of the

Persians and the Tajiks, 1978), and Ta'rikhi Adabiyoti Tojik (The

History of Tajik Literature, 1976).

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