Hamid Ismailov
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Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek
journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 and came to the United Kingdom
, where he took a job with the BBC World Service
. His works are banned in Uzbekistan. He published dozens of books in Uzbek, Russian, French, German, Turkish and other languages. Among them books of poetry: "Sad"(Garden)(1987), "Pustynya"(Desert) (1988), of visual poetry: "Post Faustum" (1990), "Kniga Otsutstvi " (1992), novels "Sobranie Utonchyonnyh" (1988), "Le Vagabond Flamboyant" (1993), "Hay-ibn-Yakzan" (2001), "Hostage to Celestial Turks" (2003), "Doroga k smerti bol'she chem smert'"(The Road to Death is bigger than Death) (2005) and many others. He translated Russian and Western classics into Uzbek, and Uzbek and Persian classics into Russian and some Western languages.
Ismailov's novel "The Railway", originally written before he left Uzbekistan, was the first to be translated into English, by Robert Chandler, and was published in 2006. A Russian edition was published in Moscow in 1997. His triptych, the novels "Comrade Islam", "Mbobo" and "Two Lost to Life" are in the process of being translated into English.
On 30 April 2010, the BBC announced that Ismailov has been appointed as Writer in Residence for BBC World Service for two years. The blog was launched on 10 May 2010.
Uzbeks
The Uzbeks are a Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Pakistan, Mongolia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China...
journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 and came to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, where he took a job with the BBC World Service
BBC World Service
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. His works are banned in Uzbekistan. He published dozens of books in Uzbek, Russian, French, German, Turkish and other languages. Among them books of poetry: "Sad"(Garden)(1987), "Pustynya"(Desert) (1988), of visual poetry: "Post Faustum" (1990), "Kniga Otsutstvi " (1992), novels "Sobranie Utonchyonnyh" (1988), "Le Vagabond Flamboyant" (1993), "Hay-ibn-Yakzan" (2001), "Hostage to Celestial Turks" (2003), "Doroga k smerti bol'she chem smert'"(The Road to Death is bigger than Death) (2005) and many others. He translated Russian and Western classics into Uzbek, and Uzbek and Persian classics into Russian and some Western languages.
Ismailov's novel "The Railway", originally written before he left Uzbekistan, was the first to be translated into English, by Robert Chandler, and was published in 2006. A Russian edition was published in Moscow in 1997. His triptych, the novels "Comrade Islam", "Mbobo" and "Two Lost to Life" are in the process of being translated into English.
On 30 April 2010, the BBC announced that Ismailov has been appointed as Writer in Residence for BBC World Service for two years. The blog was launched on 10 May 2010.
External links
- http://www.hamidismailov.com - Official site of Hamid Ismailov, with complete texts of selected works in Uzbek and Russian, excerpts of translated works in English and French, and a blog.
- "Conference of the Refined" Uzbek and Russian works under a variety of pseudonyms.
- On the poetics of Lorca's "Divan of Tamarit" by Hamid Ismailov. Translated into English by Natalya Khan & Saodat I. Bazarova. Transoxiana 7 - Diciembre 2003. Original Russian text at К поэтике "Дивана Тамарита" Лорки
- http://bbcworldservice.com/writerinresidence - BBC World Service Writer-in-Residence blog (was launched on 10 May 2010)