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Shodiev is one of the authors of the five-volume Ta'rikhi Adabiyoti

Uzbek (The History of Uzbek Literature) published between 1978 and
1981. His other contributions include Sho'irahoi to Inqilobii Khujand
(Pre-Revolution Female Poets of Khujand, Dushanbe, 1986) and
Khuzhand Shoirlari va Uzbek Adabioti (Khujand Poets and Uzbek Lit-
erature, Dushanbe, 1986).
Shodiev is a recipient of the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Shodiqulov, Hamroqul
Tajik intellectual Hamroqul Shodiqulov was born into a farming
family in the village of Chahorshanbe of Samarqand on May 18, 1938.
He received his early education at a Russian school. For middle school,
he attended a Tajik school. He joined the CPSU in 1964.
Shodiqulov graduated from the Samarqand State University with a
degree in Persian language and literature in 1961. From 1961 to 1963,
he worked as a teacher of Tajiki language and literature, and as a super-
visor of in Surkhandaria in the present-day Republic of Uzbekistan.
From 1963 to the present, he has worked at the Rudaki Language and
Literature Institute, and served as the Associate Director of the same in-
stitute from 1970 to 1987.
Although Shodiqulov's creative period began as early as 1959, his
first article on literary criticism did not appear until 1961. That article's
publication then set off a series of unique contributions dealing with the
works of the contemporary world and Tajik authors. The works of such
famous Western writers as Charles Dickens, L. Ukrainka, and A.
Teslenko were introduced and examined alongside such Tajik authors
as A. Bahori and Samad Ghani.
Between 1960 and 1962, he contributed criticism about some of the
plays staged in the region, including, "Tui" ("Party"), by S. Ghani, and
"Buzurgi ba Aql Ast, Na ba Sol" ("Greatness Comes with Wisdom Not
With Age"). These fragmentary pieces were published in Pionir Toji-
kiston, and Ma'orif va Madaniyat, and other similar journals.
Shodiqulov's major contributions include "Vizhagii Bashar Dusti dar
Shi'ri Tursunzoda" ("The Uniqueness of the Love of Mankind in the
Poetry of Tursunzoda," 1971), "Habib Yusefi va Lermontov (Habib
Ysefi and Lermontov," 1972), "Mirsaid Mirshakar va Leninnomai U"
("Mirsaid Mirshakar and His Book on Lenin," 1972), "Realismi Tan-

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qidi" ("Critical Realism," 1974), "Sadriddin Aini" ("Sadriddin Aini,"

1975), "Ustodi Muhtarami Hajv" ("The Respected Master of Satire,"
1976), "Paivandi Dusti va Badkhohoni On" ("Friendship Ties and Its
Enemies," 1978), and "Inqilobi Oktiobr va Adabiyoti Tojik" ("The Oc-
tober Revolution and Tajik Literature," 1984).
Shodiqulov joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1974.