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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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In 1991, protesting the Tajik Parliament's lack of respect for the law,

Safieva participated in a hunger strike. Her major works include

"Bunafsha" ("Violet," 1970); "Khonai Pidar" ("Father's House," 1973);

"Afsonai Kuhi" ("Mountain Legend," 1975); "Dunyoi Dil" ("The Uni-

verse of the Heart," 1977), "Ikhlos" ("Sincerity," 1980); "Otashi Sughd"

("The Sughd Fire," 1981); "Oinai Ruz" ("The Mirror of the Day,"

1984); "Ruhi Uryon" ("Naked Soul," 1983); "Kabkho" ("The Par-

tridges," 1983); "Ruhi Bokhtar" ("The Spirit of the West," 1987);

"Zilzila" ("Earthquake," 1995); and many others.

Safieva joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1971, and

garnered the Komsomoli Lenin Prize in 1978. She also received the Red

Banner of Courage and the 100

th

 Anniversary of the Birth of Lenin

Prize.

Saidali Ma'mur

See Ma'murov, Saidali.