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Nabiev, Abdukholiq
Tajik literary critic Abdukholiq Nabiev was born into a family of
farmers in the village of Revad in Aini, Sughd, on November 20, 1946.
He received his early education in the region of Sughd.
Nabiev graduated from the Leninabad State Pedagogical Institute in
1967 and worked there for a while. In 1967 and 1968, he served in the
army. He returned to the same institute after the war, and continued
teaching in the Department of Tajiki Literature as an Assistant
Professor. In 1981, he defended his thesis, entitled Mas'alai Pesikholizm
dar Nasli Muosiri Tojik (The Psychological Problems of Contemporary
Tajik Youth). In 1984, he was transferred to Dushanbe, where he joined
the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature at the Academy of
Sciences of Tajikistan
Nabiev's scientific and creative era began in 1969, when he wrote a
series of critical essays on the stages of growth in the career of
professional authors. In these essays, he studied not only the depth and
the style of particular works of art, but the emergence of an author's
persona through the creative endeavor. In this vein, he presented studies
on the works of S. Aini, J. Ikromi, S. Ulughzoda, M. Tursunzoda, R.
Jalil, P. Tolis, F. Muhammadiev, U. Kuhzod, S. Tursun, M. Shakuri, A.
Hakimov, and others. He also wrote critical pieces about the plays
staged in the theaters of Khujand.
Nabiev's contributions include "S. Aini va Inkishofi Nasri Shavravii
Tojik" ("Sadriddin Aini and the Development of Soviet Tajik Prose,"
1978); "Ijodi Badi'i: Inson va Zamon" ("Artistic Creation: Man and
Time, Dushanbe," 1983); "Tasviri Olami Botinii Inson, Navisanda va
Zamon" ("Depiction of Man's Inner World: Writer and Time,"
Dushanbe, 1987); "Adabiyot va Naqdi Adabi" ("Literature and Literary
Criticism," Dushanbe, 1993); and "Narzulloi Bektosh va Ilm u Adabi
Tojikii Solhoi 20- to 30-i Sadaii Bist" ("Narzullo Bektosh and Tajik
Science and Literature during the 1920s and 1930s," Dushanbe, 2000).
Nabiev joined both the Union of Writers of Tajikistan and the Union
of the Writers of the Soviet Union in same year (1984).

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