P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Nabiev, Abdukholiq

Tajik literary critic Abdukholiq Nabiev was born into a family of

farmers in the village of Revad in Aini, Sughd, on November 20, 1946.

He received his early education in the region of Sughd.

Nabiev graduated from the Leninabad State Pedagogical Institute in

1967 and worked there for a while. In 1967 and 1968, he served in the

army. He returned to the same institute after the war, and continued

teaching in the Department of Tajiki Literature as an Assistant

Professor. In 1981, he defended his thesis, entitled Mas'alai Pesikholizm

dar Nasli Muosiri Tojik (The Psychological Problems of Contemporary

Tajik Youth). In 1984, he was transferred to Dushanbe, where he joined

the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature at the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan

Nabiev's scientific and creative era began in 1969, when he wrote a

series of critical essays on the stages of growth in the career of

professional authors. In these essays, he studied not only the depth and

the style of particular works of art, but the emergence of an author's

persona through the creative endeavor. In this vein, he presented studies

on the works of S. Aini, J. Ikromi, S. Ulughzoda, M. Tursunzoda, R.

Jalil, P. Tolis, F. Muhammadiev, U. Kuhzod, S. Tursun, M. Shakuri, A.

Hakimov, and others. He also wrote critical pieces about the plays

staged in the theaters of Khujand.

Nabiev's contributions include "S. Aini va Inkishofi Nasri Shavravii

Tojik" ("Sadriddin Aini and the Development of Soviet Tajik Prose,"

1978); "Ijodi Badi'i: Inson va Zamon" ("Artistic Creation: Man and

Time, Dushanbe," 1983); "Tasviri Olami Botinii Inson, Navisanda va

Zamon" ("Depiction of Man's Inner World: Writer and Time,"

Dushanbe, 1987); "Adabiyot va Naqdi Adabi" ("Literature and Literary

Criticism," Dushanbe, 1993); and "Narzulloi Bektosh va Ilm u Adabi

Tojikii Solhoi 20- to 30-i Sadaii Bist" ("Narzullo Bektosh and Tajik

Science and Literature during the 1920s and 1930s," Dushanbe, 2000).

Nabiev joined both the Union of Writers of Tajikistan and the Union

of the Writers of the Soviet Union in same year (1984).

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