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Tajik literature and its history is bound up with the standardisation of theTajik language. Tajik literary centres include the cities ofBukhara andSamarkand, currently in present-dayUzbekistan but with a majority Tajik population andBalkh andHerat in Afghanistan.
During theSoviet era, the principal literary output wassocialist realism in nature.
Three writers dominated the first generation of Soviet Tajik literature.Sadriddin Aini (1878–1954), aJadidist writer and educator who turned communist, began as a poet but wrote primarily prose in the Soviet era. His works include three major novels dealing with social issues in the region and memoirs that depict life in the Bukhoro Khanate. Aini became the first president of Tajikistan's Academy of Sciences.
Abu'l-Qasem Lahuti (1887–1957; in Tajik, Abdulqosim Lohuti) was an Iranian poet who emigrated to the Soviet Union for political reasons and eventually settled in Tajikistan. He wrote both lyric poetry and "socialist realist" verse. Another poet,Mirzo Tursunzoda (1911–1977), collected Tajik oral literature, wrote poetry of his own about social change in Tajikistan, and turned out various works on popular political themes of the moment. Since the generation that included those three writers, Tajikistan has produced numerous poets, novelists, short story writers, and playwrights.
Other writers of note during the Soviet period includeSatim Ulugzade (1911–1997),Karim Hakim (1905–1942),Pairov Sulaimoni (1899–1933),Rozia Ozod (1893–1957),Aminjan Shokuhi (1923–??),Mohammad Jan Rahimi (1901–??),Bobo Yunas (1885–1945),Habibulo Nazarov (1907–??),Abdul Salem Dehati (1911–??),Baki Rahim Zadeh (1910–??),Rahim Jalil (1909–??),Jalal Ekrami (1909–??),Aminzadeh Mohiedin (1904–??),Juhari Zadeh Sohayli (1900–??),Faizollah Ansari (1931–??),Mirzo Ghafar (1929–??), Mir Shakar (1912–??),Mohiadin Farhat (1924–??) andAhmad Danesh.
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