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POETS · 20TH — 21ST CENTURY

Nazri Yazdoni

b. 1949 Vakhiyo valley, Sangvor district

Poet, translator, philosopher and literary scholar. People’s Poet of Tajikistan and one of the first to translate into Tajik directly from English.

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1981 thesis on the philosophy of Ibn Sina
2014 People’s Poet of Tajikistan
Nazri Yazdoni

Biography

Nazri Yazdoni (Nazrullo Rahmatulloev) is a Tajik poet, translator, philosopher and literary scholar. He was born on 18 August 1949 in the Vakhiyo valley, in what is now the Sangvor district of Tajikistan.

He graduated from the Dushanbe State Pedagogical Institute and in 1981 defended a doctoral thesis on the philosophy of Ibn Sina. He worked at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan and at the Union of Writers of Tajikistan.

He is the author of several poetry collections and a translator from Russian, English, Arabic, Uzbek and other languages — one of the first Tajik poets to translate directly from English into Tajik.

He was awarded the Order of Sharaf (2011) and the title of People’s Poet of Tajikistan (2014). He has been a member of the Union of Writers since 1988.

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