P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Shodiqulov, Hamroqul

Tajik intellectual Hamroqul Shodiqulov was born into a farming

family in the village of Chahorshanbe of Samarqand on May 18, 1938.

He received his early education at a Russian school. For middle school,

he attended a Tajik school. He joined the CPSU in 1964.

Shodiqulov graduated from the Samarqand State University with a

degree in Persian language and literature in 1961. From 1961 to 1963,

he worked as a teacher of Tajiki language and literature, and as a super-

visor of in Surkhandaria in the present-day Republic of Uzbekistan.

From 1963 to the present, he has worked at the Rudaki Language and

Literature Institute, and served as the Associate Director of the same in-

stitute from 1970 to 1987.

Although Shodiqulov's creative period began as early as 1959, his

first article on literary criticism did not appear until 1961. That article's

publication then set off a series of unique contributions dealing with the

works of the contemporary world and Tajik authors. The works of such

famous Western writers as Charles Dickens, L. Ukrainka, and A.

Teslenko were introduced and examined alongside such Tajik authors

as A. Bahori and Samad Ghani.

Between 1960 and 1962, he contributed criticism about some of the

plays staged in the region, including, "Tui" ("Party"), by S. Ghani, and

"Buzurgi ba Aql Ast, Na ba Sol" ("Greatness Comes with Wisdom Not

With Age"). These fragmentary pieces were published in Pionir Toji-

kiston, and Ma'orif va Madaniyat, and other similar journals.

Shodiqulov's major contributions include "Vizhagii Bashar Dusti dar

Shi'ri Tursunzoda" ("The Uniqueness of the Love of Mankind in the

Poetry of Tursunzoda," 1971), "Habib Yusefi va Lermontov (Habib

Ysefi and Lermontov," 1972), "Mirsaid Mirshakar va Leninnomai U"

("Mirsaid Mirshakar and His Book on Lenin," 1972), "Realismi Tan-

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qidi" ("Critical Realism," 1974), "Sadriddin Aini" ("Sadriddin Aini,"

1975), "Ustodi Muhtarami Hajv" ("The Respected Master of Satire,"

1976), "Paivandi Dusti va Badkhohoni On" ("Friendship Ties and Its

Enemies," 1978), and "Inqilobi Oktiobr va Adabiyoti Tojik" ("The Oc-

tober Revolution and Tajik Literature," 1984).

Shodiqulov joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1974.