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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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not published until the 1980s. In fact, during the latter part of his life, he

was blacklisted for having sent his son to England to be educated.

Completed in 1967, Vose' portrays the life of a revolutionary peasant

who is forced by circumstances to rise against Amir Abdul Ahad (ruled

1885-1910). To gather materials for the novel, Ulughzoda visited

Khavaling, studied the family relations of Vose', and interviewed some

of the older people who still remembered the event. The novel makes its

nonconformist author the third most prominent writer of twentieth cen-

tury Tajikistan, the other two being Sadriddin Aini and Jalol Ikromi.

Ulughzoda joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1934.

He was a Distinguished Artist of Tajikistan in 1962. He also gar-

nered three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, two Badges of Honor,

and the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of

Tajikistan.

Ulughzoda died in Moscow in 1997.