12 Facts About Abdulla Qodiriy

Abdulla Qodiriy was an Uzbek playwright, poet, writer, and literary translator.

Abdulla Qodiriy introduced realism into Uzbek literature through his historical novels and influenced many other Central Asian novelists.

Abdulla Qodiriy wrote under various pen names, the most renowned being Julqunboy.

Abdulla Qodiriy was executed during the Great Purge under the leadership of Joseph Stalin.

Abdulla Qodiriy was born on April 10,1894, in Tashkent, then Russian Turkestan.

Abdulla Qodiriy did a variety of menial jobs before a merchant hired him as a book copier.

Abdulla Qodiriy became interested in writing in the middle of the 1910s.

Abdulla Qodiriy was arrested again on December 31,1937, as "enemy of the people".

Abdulla Qodiriy was executed on October 4,1938, in Tashkent.

Abdulla Qodiriy translated into the Uzbek language the works of many Russian writers, such as Nikolai Gogol and Anton Chekhov.

Abdulla Qodiriy is rumoured to have written another novel, Emir Umar's Slave Girl, set in the early nineteenth century during the reigns of Emir Umar, khan of Kokand, and his son, Matali.

Abdulla Qodiriy is the central character in the novel Jinlar bazmi yoxud katta o'yin by Hamid Ismailov, published in Tashkent in 2016, and translated into English in 2018.