P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Asrorov

See Asrori, Vohid.

Asrorov, Shodi

Tajik writer Shodi Asrorov was born in the village of Surkhkast of

Maschoh in 1945.

Asrorov graduated from Tajikistan State University with a degree in

Tajiki language and literature in 1968. He remained at that University

until 1978, when he defended a doctorate dissertation entitled Siyavosh

dar Shohnomai Firdawsi (Siyavosh in Firdowsi's Shahname). Inson az

Nazari Firdowsi (Firdowsi's View of Man) is Asrorov's major

contribution to Firdowsi studies.

Shodi Asrorov died in 1987.

Atoboev, Abdusalom

Tajik intellectual and playwright Abdusalom Atoboev, also referred

to as Atozoda, was born into a farming family in the village of Qal'achai

Mazor in the Isfara province of northern Tajikistan on April 20, 1934.

He joined the CPSU in 1965.

Atoboev graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute with a

degree in philology in 1958. Thereafter, he worked at Tojikistoni

Shavravi, Zanoni Tojikiston, Sadoi Sharq, and Mash'al, as well as at the

Ministry of Education.

Atoboev's early stories were published in the 1960s. Recognized as

one of Tajikistan's prominent playwrights, Atoboev wrote plays dealing

with Tajik history and society, as well as with the moral problems of the

contemporary world. In his 1971 play, entitled Surudi Notamom

(Unfinished Anthem), he depicts the life and work of the well-known

Iranian poet Robi'a Balkhi. Similarly, his 1973 play, Foji'ai Inson (The

Calamity of Man), depicts the history of the peoples of the west.

Atoboev's other works include Qiomi Lohuti (The Lahuti Uprising,

1979), Bo Imzoi Lenin (Signed by Lenin, 1981), Parvozi Uqob (The

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Flight of the Eagle, 1975), Shamshiri Mirosi (The Inherited Sword,

1984), and others.

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

He died in Dushanbe on April 28, 1986.