Mustai Karim

Mustai Karim
Karim in 2004
Karim in 2004
BornMustafa Safich Karimov
(1919-10-20)20 October 1919[1]
Klyashevo village, Safarovskaya parish, Ufa county, Ufa Governorate, Russian SFSR[1]
Died21 September 2005(2005-09-21) (aged 85)[1]
Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia[1]
OccupationPoet, novelist, playwright
CitizenshipSoviet, Russian
Alma materBashkir State University
Website
mustaykarim.narod.ru

Mustai Karim (Bashkir: Мостай Кәрим; born Mustafa Safich Karimov, Bashkir: Мостафа Сафа улы Кәримов; 20 October 1919 – 21 September 2005) was a Bashkir Soviet poet, writer and playwright. He was named People's Poet of the Bashkir ASSR (1963), Hero of Socialist Labour (1979), and winner of the Lenin Prize (1984) and the USSR State Prize (1972).