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WRITER

Gʻafur Gʻulom

1903 - 1966

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Gʻafur Gʻulom or Gafur Gulom (Russified form Gafur Gulyam) (Uzbek: Gʻafur Gʻulom, Ғафур Ғулом) (May 10, 1903 – July 10, 1966) was an Uzbek poet, writer, and literary translator. He is best remembered for his stories Shum Bola (The Mischievous Boy) (adapted for film in 1977) and Yodgor. Gʻafur Gʻulom is also known for translating the works of many influential foreign authors, such as Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and William Shakespeare. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gʻafur Gʻulom has received more than 37,321 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gʻafur Gʻulom is the 3,346th most popular writer (up from 3,505th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Uzbekistan (down from 34th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Uzbekistani Writer.

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Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gʻafur Gʻulom ranks 3,346 out of 5,755Before him are Jeton Kelmendi, William Hope Hodgson, Eleanor Hibbert, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Giosafat Barbaro, and Edith Durham. After him are Sergio Ramírez, Viktor Rydberg, Mary Seacole, Angelos Sikelianos, Bragi Boddason, and Elia Abu Madi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Gʻafur Gʻulom ranks 168Before him are Lili Kraus, W. V. D. Hodge, Felice Bonetto, André Maschinot, Ivar Johansson, and Corrado Bafile. After him are Orde Wingate, Preston Tucker, Issa Pliyev, Hans Hedtoft, Fernando Paternoster, and John Williams. Among people deceased in 1966, Gʻafur Gʻulom ranks 111Before him are Hans Hofmann, Boris Podolsky, C. S. Forester, Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Elio Vittorini, and Albrecht Brandi. After him are Ernest Burgess, Erich Pommer, Courtney Hodges, Jan Kiepura, Vicente Rojo Lluch, and Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov.

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In Uzbekistan

Among people born in Uzbekistan, Gʻafur Gʻulom ranks 39 out of 145Before him are Mirkhvand (1433), Genrich Altshuller (1926), Abdulla Aripov (1962), Sergey Lebedev (1948), Abdurauf Fitrat (1885), and Rashid Sunyaev (1943). After him are Zulfiya (1915), Nasrullah Khan (1874), Nigmatilla Yuldashev (1962), Nodira (1792), Gulnara Karimova (1972), and Oksana Chusovitina (1975).

Among WRITERS In Uzbekistan

Among writers born in Uzbekistan, Gʻafur Gʻulom ranks 4Before him are Sadriddin Ayni (1878), Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi (1889), and Abdurauf Fitrat (1885). After him are Zulfiya (1915), Nodira (1792), and Dina Rubina (1953).