Mirtemir

Mirtemir
BornMirtemir Umarbekovich Tursunov
(1910-05-30)May 30, 1910
Village Ikan, Turkistan, Russian Turkestan
DiedJanuary 1978 (aged 67)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
OccupationPoet and literary translator
Notable awards
  • People's Poet of the Uzbek SSR (1971)
  • State Berdaq Prize (1977)
  • State Hamza Prize (1979)
  • National Order of Merit (2001)

Mirtemir Tursunov (Uzbek: Mirtemir Tursunov, Миртемир Турсунов) (30 May 1910 — January 1978) most commonly known simply as Mirtemir, was an Uzbek poet and literary translator.[1][2] In addition to writing his own poetry, Mirtemir translated the works of many famous foreign poets, such as Abai Qunanbaiuli, Aleksandr Pushkin, Heinrich Heine, Magtymguly Pyragy, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Lermontov, Nâzım Hikmet, Nikolay Nekrasov, Pablo Neruda, Samad Vurgun, and Shota Rustaveli into the Uzbek language.[3]

Mirtemir became a National Poet of the Uzbek SSR in 1971.[4] He received many other awards for his works, including the State Berdaq Prize (1977) and the State Hamza Prize (1979).[5] In 2002, Mirtemir was posthumously awarded the National Order of Merit (Uzbek: Buyuk xizmatlari uchun), one of independent Uzbekistan's most prestigious awards.

  1. ^ "Mirtemir". Ensiklopedik lugʻat (in Uzbek). Vol. 1. Toshkent: Oʻzbek sovet ensiklopediyasi. 1988. p. 525. 5-89890-002-0.
  2. ^ Karimov, Naim (2005). "Mirtemir". Oʻzbekiston milliy ensiklopediyasi (in Uzbek). Toshkent.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ "Mirtemir". Ziyouz (in Uzbek). Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  4. ^ Rozenblyum, Y. B. "Mirtemir". In A. M. Prokhorov (ed.). Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia.
  5. ^ "Адабиёт, санъат ва архитектура соҳасида Ҳамза номидаги Ўзбекистон ССР давлат мукофотларини бериш тўғрисида" [On awarding the State Prizes of the Uzbekistan SSR named after Hamza in the field of literature, art and architecture]. Sovet Oʻzbekistoni (in Uzbek). No. 259. 11 November 1979. p. 2.