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«Forgotten” Literary Master Dies in Tashkent |
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 |
People’s Writer of Uzbekistan Adil Yakubov has died December 21. Born in Kazakhstan in 1926, he was celebrated for his numerous novels and short stories, as well as for his raising pressing issues of his country.
Close friend and associate with late Chyngyz Aitmatov, Yakubov was widely known for his literary works as “It is not Easy to be a Man”, “White White Swan”, “Justice”, “Two Loves”, Bird’s Wing”, among others. In 1987-1992 he led the Writers’ Union of Uzbekistan in crucial “Glasnost” era during the Gorbachev’s rule. According to his younger colleague, poet and opposition leader Mohammad Salih, Mr. Yakubov’s moral support was crucial in the establishment of now banned “Birlik” and “Erk”, the first opposition parties in Uzbekistan. Mr. Salih points out the prominent role the writer played in raising the awareness in the society on the harmful dominance of cotton production in the economy and the death of Uzbek soldiers in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion. President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov co-signed a letter (http://uza.uz/ru/society/8801/) commemorating the death of the writer, but the text does not mention the role of Mr. Yakubov played in the development of the opposition movement in Uzbekistan. In the last decade Mr. Yakubov was not able to publish his works in Uzbekistan.
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People’s Writer of Uzbekistan Adil Yakubov has died December 21. Born in Kazakhstan in 1926, he was celebrated for his numerous novels and short stories, as well as for his raising pressing issues of his country.
Close friend and associate with late Chyngyz Aitmatov, Yakubov was widely known for his literary works as “It is not Easy to be a Man”, “White White Swan”, “Justice”, “Two Loves”, Bird’s Wing”, among others. In 1987-1992 he led the Writers’ Union of Uzbekistan in crucial “Glasnost” era during the Gorbachev’s rule. According to his younger colleague, poet and opposition leader Mohammad Salih, Mr. Yakubov’s moral support was crucial in the establishment of now banned “Birlik” and “Erk”, the first opposition parties in Uzbekistan. Mr. Salih points out the prominent role the writer played in raising the awareness in the society on the harmful dominance of cotton production in the economy and the death of Uzbek soldiers in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion. President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov co-signed a letter (http://uza.uz/ru/society/8801/) commemorating the death of the writer, but the text does not mention the role of Mr. Yakubov played in the development of the opposition movement in Uzbekistan. In the last decade Mr. Yakubov was not able to publish his works in Uzbekistan.