Ozod Sharafiddinov

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Ozod Sharafiddinov (1 March 1929 - 4 October 2005) is a literary scholar and critic. He was born in the village of Okhunqaynar near Kokand.^[1] He graduated from the 14th secondary school in Tashkent, the Faculty of Philology of the Central Asian State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan) in 1951. He completed his postgraduate studies in Moscow, received his PhD degree in 1955. Ozod Sharafiddinov studied the problems of poetry, wrote literary-critical articles on Uzbek poetry and its state. His scientific-creative and literary-critical researches of that period are reflected in the work “Time. Heart. Poetry” (1962). In the 60–80s of the 20th century, he promoted the life and work of Cholpon. Ozod Sharafiddinov created literary portraits of the representatives of Uzbek literature such as Oybek, Gafur Gulyam, Abdulla Qahhor, Shaykhzoda, Mirtemir, Zulfiya: “Jewels of Talent” (1976), “Literary Studies” (1968), “Abdulla Qahhor” (1988), “The First Miracle” (1979). The book of literary-critical sketches “The Seekers of Beauty” (1974), which was created on the works of the representatives of other literatures, occupies an important place in the scientist's work. Ozod Sharafiddinov reflected the situations in the Uzbek literary process from the 60s of the XX century to the XIX century in the works such as “Talent is the Property of the People” (1979), “Literature is the Lesson of Life” (1981), “Searching for Beauty” (1985), “Loyalty to the Truth” (1988), “Pages of Passion” (1999), “President” (2003).^[2][3]