P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Abdumannonov, Abdurahmon

Tajik literary critic Abdurahmon Abdumannonov was born into a

family of farmers in the village of Boghiston of Tashkent on April 6,

1947.

Abdumannonov graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1968.

From 1972 to 1975, he was a Scientific Worker at the Institute of

Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. From 1975

to 1978, he was the Chief Scientific Editor and Chief Editor of the Tajik

Soviet Encyclopedia. In 1979, he became the Chief Scientific Worker of

the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature at the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan.

Abdumannonov's research deals with the works of the Iranian poet

Malak al-Shu'ara Bahar and the question of "new Persian poetry."

Abdumannonov has written several essays about this subject. He is also

one of the authors of the six-volume Ta'rikhi Adabiyoti Sovetii Tojik:

Inkishofi Zhonrho (The History of Soviet-Tajik Literature: Development

of the Genres). He is also interested in the realist elements in the poetry

of the Perso-Tajik peoples, especially the inception and development of

socialist realism in contemporary Tajik literature.

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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Abdumannonov has written extensively on the works of such Tajik

greats as Aini, Lahuti, Payrav, Tursunzoda, Ikromi, Shukuhi, Ansori,

Sherali, Gulrukhsor, Gulnazar, and others.

Abdumannonov became a member of the Union of Writers of the

Soviet Union in 1984.