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Jalilov's other works include Shi'rho va Hikoyaho (Poems and

Stories, 1939), Hissa va Qissa ( Fables and Stories, 1941), Pushaimoni
(Repentance, 1960), Ilhom (Inspiration, 1973), Dukhtari Marmarin
(Marble Girl, 1975), Bozgasht az Bihisht (Return From Paradise,
1976), Gardishi Falak (The Passage of Time, 1982), and Hizor Sho'ir
(A Thousand Poets, 1976).
Jalilov was a People's Writer of Tajikistan, as well as a recipient of
the Rudaki State Prize in 1970. He also received the Order of Lenin,
Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Badge of Honor, the Order of
Dusti (Friendship) of the Republic of Tajikistan. Jalilov died in
Khujand in 1988.
Jalolov, Obid
Tajik linguist Obid Jalolovich Jalolov was born into a poor farming
family in Chust, Uzbekistan, in 1907. He joined the CPSU in 1939.
After graduating from the Tashkent Scientific Institute in 1924, he
went to Dushanbe and worked at the University and at various newspa-
pers and journals. From 1939 to 1942, he was Assistant Professor of
Tajiki Language and Associate Director of Research of the Stalinabad
State Pedagogical Institute. He received his doctorate degree in philoso-
phy in 1956 and became a professor in 1958. Between 1946 and 1959,
he was the Director of the Dialectology Division, Institute of Languages
and Literature, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan and from 1959 to
1969, he was a Senior Scientific Worker in the same institute.
Jalolov has published the following three scientific articles: "Mu-
nosibati Shevai Chust va Zaboni Adabi" ("The Relationship Between
the Chust and the Literary Language," 1949); "Kategoriai Jam' va Ba'zi
Mas'alahoi Zaboni Tojiki" ("The Plural Category and Some Tajiki Re-
lated Questions," 1961); and "Guruhi Lahjahoi Raioni Yovon" ("The
Group of Yavon Dialects," 1967).
Jalolov died in Dushanbe in 1969.