P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Pirmuhammadzod, Abdushukur

Tajik literary critic and playwright Abdushukur Pirmuhammadzod

was born in 1912 into a merchant's family in Samarqand. He is Abdu-

salom Dehoti's brother. Little is known about Pirmuhammadzod's early

background other than that his work was supported by Sadriddin Aini as

early as the 1930s.

Indeed, he began his career as an Editor and translator for the

Samarqand State Publications, with which Aini was working at the

time. Later on, in 1934, he carried out the same service in Dushanbe.

While working, he attended the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute. He

wrote many books for children, as well as several textbooks. His major

work is his 1940 Rustam va Suhrob (Rustam and Suhrab), for which he

collaborated with Ghani Abdullo. It was staged in Dushanbe at the

Abulqosim Lahuti Theater in 1940 and in Moscow in 1941.

Pirmuhammadzod died in 1942.