Choʻlpon

Abdul Hamid Sulaymon ogli Yunusov, pseudonym Cholpon ( "Morning Star "; Cyrillic Абдулҳамид Сулаймон ўғли Юнусов, Чўлпон; Russian Абдулхамид Чулпон Abdulchamid Tschulpon, also Чулпан Chulpan, also Abdulkhamid, Chulpon; * 1893, 1897 or 1898 in Andijon, † 1938 in Siberia), was an Uzbek writer and translator from the Fergana Valley, who supported the movement of Jadidism in Turkestan. He is considered one of the founders of the modern Uzbek literature.

Life and work

After attending an Islamic primary school ( maktab ), a native of one of the wealthiest families Andijons Abdul Hamid Sulaymon ogli visited a Russian school. His first poems he wrote more than Maktab students in 1908 one of which was published in a newspaper. In the summer of 1914 his work Doxtur Muhammadyor that perhaps the first modern Turkic short story from Central Asia, as a serialized novel in a newspaper appeared. Those writing played an influential role in the Central Asian modernism in the sequence.

After the October Revolution of 1917, the focus of his work turned increasingly to the nationalism. He translated numerous documents into Uzbek, including Hamlet and works of Gogol and Pushkin. In 1938 he was arrested, exiled to Siberia and murdered there.