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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Winter Quarter," 1942), "Qasami Tisha Boi" ("Tisha Boi's Oath,"

1942), "Dostoni Odamoni az Bomi Jahon" ("The Story of the People of

the Top of the World," 1943), "Kalidi Bakht" ("The Key to Prosperity,"

1947), "Lenin Zinda Ast" ("Lenin Lives," 1947), "Panji Noorom" ("The

Uneasy Panj," 1947-1949), "Tu Zindai" ("You Are Alive," 1948),

"Namoyeshnomai Shahri Man" ("A Play About My Town," 1951), "Mo

az Pomir Omadim" ("We Came from the Pamirs," 1954), "Da'vati

Vatan" ("The Invitation of the Motherland," 1954), "Farzandi Vatan"

("The Child of the Motherland," 1955), "Onhoro Dust Midoram" ("I

Love Them," 1957), "Bahori Tojikiston" ("Tajikistan Spring," 1958),

"Bachchagoni Hinduston" ("Children of India," 1961), "'Ishqi Dukhtari

Kuhsor" ("The Love of the Mountain Girl," 1966), "Bairaqi Maktab"

("The Banner of the School," 1969), "Bo Rohi Pidaron" ("On the Path

of the Forefathers," 1971), "Korvoni Bakht" ("The Caravan of Luck,"

1978), "Gulhoi Kuhi" ("Mountain Flowers," 1979)

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 Between 1970 and

1974, Mirshakar's collected works were published in three volumes.

Mirshakar joined the Union of the Writers of the Soviet Union in

1934. He won the Soviet State Prize in 1950, the Rudaki State Prize in

1964, and the Komsomol Prize in 1972. In 1962, he was recognized as a

People's Poet of Tajikistan. He has also received two Orders of Lenin,

the Order of the October Revolution, two Orders of the Red Banner of

Labor, two Orders of the Badge of Honor, and the Honorary Order of

the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan. Mirshakar died in

Dushanbe in 1993.