OSMAN NAZIR
(1913-1944)
Uzbek poet, translator and playwright Uthman Nazareth is known as a poet who, as early as the 30s of the 20th century, brought a new stream of Uzbek poetry through his worldview and contributed to Uzbek poetry.
Uthman Nazareth was born in Namangan in 1913. He took his primary education at a primary school in Kokand and continued on the new style internet. He studied at the Institute of cinematography in Moscow (1929-30) and at the Faculty of language and literature of the Samarkand State University named after Alisher Navoi for a certain period of time (1933-34). His first steps in literature include the period before 1929.
In 1932, his first poetry collection, “conversation with The Sun”, in 1935, “the heart”, and in 1936, “Mehrim”, were brought to the public’s attention and excited poetry lovers. His works have been translated into various languages, memorizing his poems and epics. A by Uthman Nazareth.S.Pushkin’s “kindergarten fountain” and M.Yu.Lermontov’s novels “Demon” have been translated into Uzbek.
Uthman Nazareth also admired the wider community for his dramaturgical works. He is the author of stage plays such as” Nazirjon Halilov“,” Zafar“,” victory“,” enemy “and” Atlas”. This work was a special phenomenon in Uzbek drama and reflected the most relevant topics of its time.
On January 27, 1937, the Republican public widely celebrated the young poet’s 10-year Creation, and half a year later, a meeting was organized at the Writers ‘ Union, raising the issue of considering the “poet’s holiness”. Two days after the assembly, Uthman Nazareth was removed from the ranks of poets and arrested on 13 July 1937 and exiled with the stamp “enemy of the people”. First sent to prisons in Magadan and then Kemerovo regions, he died there on March 9, 1944.