P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Niyozi Nurmuhammad

See Niyozmatov, Nurmamat.

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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Niyozi, Foteh

Uzbek/Tajik author and journalist Foteh Niyozi was born on April

18, 1914, into a family of workers in Samarqand. He joined the CPSU

in 1941.

Niyozi graduated from the Samarqand Pedagogical Institute in 1929,

and from the Tashkent University in 1950. His earlier poems, which

were in Uzbeki, include "Yosh Leninchi" ("Young Follower of Lenin")

and "Lenin Yoli" ("Lenin's Path"). His other contributions in Uzbeki

include "Bu Kunin Ghazeli" ("Today's Sonnet," 1938) and "Sevgi"

("Love," 1940).

Niyozi moved to Dushanbe in 1934. Between 1952 and 1956, he was

the Chief Editor of Sharqi Surkh. Before that he worked at Haqiqati

Uzbekiston,  Mu'allimon, and Tojikistoni Surkh. He also served as the

Secretary of the Union of Writers of Tajikistan, and as an Assistant to

the Committee of Sado va Simoi Tojikiston. Niyozi became a member

of the Union of Writers of Tajikistan in 1938. His major works include

Vafo (Loyalty, Vol. 1, 1949; Vol. 2, 1958), Har Bisha Gumon Nabar ki

Kholist (Don't Take It for Granted  that Every Forest Is Empty, 1974),

Dukhtari Hamsoya (The Neighbor's Daughter, 1955), Diruz, Imruz,

Fardo (Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, 1964), and Sarbozoni Bisiloh

(Soldiers Without Arms, 1986). Between 1974 and 1978, Niyozi's

Asarhoi Muntakhab (Selected Works) was published in four volumes.

Niyozi became a People's Poet of Tajikistan in1968, and won the

Rudaki State Prize (1977). He also received two Orders of the Red

Banner of Labor, two Badges of Honor, eleven Orders of the Patriotic

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

Tajikistan.

He died in Dushanbe in 1992.