Tajik linguist and intellectual Usmonjon Karimov was born into a
family of farmers in Kasansay in the Namangan province of Uzbekistan
in 1934.
1988, received his doctorate degree in language and literature. His early
works deal with Tajik literature of the second part of the 18th and the
beginning of the 19th centuries. He studied the literary, stylistic, and
aesthetic aspects of that literature, as well as the impact of that literature
on Tajik society. Author of a considerable body of literature, Karimov
also contributed to the compilation of the Russian Ta'rikhi Adabiyoti Jahoni (History of World Literature). He is also the author of separate
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versities.