Payrav Sulaymānī
Payrav Sulaymānī | |
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 Payrav Sulaymānī in 1932 | |
| Native name | Пайрав Сулаймонӣ پیرو سلیمانی |
| Born | Ātajān Payrav Sulaymānī (Отаҷон Пайрав Сулаймонӣ) April 15, 1899 |
| Died | June 9, 1933 (aged 34) |
| Pen name | Пайрав Сулаймонӣ |
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| Language | |
| Citizenship |  Emirate of Bukhara → Bukharan People's Soviet Republic → Soviet Union |
| Years active | 1914-1933 |
| Children | |
Payrav Sulaymānī (Tajik: Пайрав Сулаймонӣ) was a Tajik writer and poet from Bukhara. A reformer of traditional Tajik poetic metrics.
Early life
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Left to right: Payrav's father - Abdukarim, Payrav, Payrav's uncles - Aziz, Amin and Ishoq.
Ātajān Payrav Sulaymānī was born on April 15, 1899, in Bukhara (then part of Emirate of Bukhara) in a family of Tajik merchants. He received his primary education at a madrasa in Merv in Persian language. From 1916 to 1917, he studied at a Russian school in Kogon.
Between 1921 and 1922, he served as the Second Secretary at the Embassy of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic in Afghanistan. After returning home, he devoted himself to literary and creative work. He later worked as an editor and translator at the State Publishing House of Tajikistan.
He is a father of Gulchēhra Sulaymānī.
References
[edit source]- Iraj Bashiri, Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century, International Borbad Foundation, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 2003.
See also
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