Oybek (1905–1968)

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Musa Tashmuhammad, son of the great writer, poet, scientist, public figure, national writer of Uzbekistan, who made a huge and invaluable contribution to the development of Uzbek literature of the 1905th century, was born on January 10, XNUMX in the city of Tashkent in a Bozchi family.

Before that, he studied in high school, and in 1922-1925, he studied at the Tashkent Technical College of Education and Training. Then he continued his studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the State University of Central Asia. In 1930, he graduated from the university and taught political economy there.

Oybek enters the literature with the poetry collection "Feelings" published in 1926. The poet's epics "Dilbar - a girl of the age" (1931), "Och" (1932), "Bakhtigul va Sogindik", "Temirchi Jora" (1933) are poetic chronicles of his time. He creates about twenty epics on historical and modern themes. Oibek's poetry is extremely beautiful; It is distinguished by its simple, fluent and expressive language, rich and colorful visual arts. For example, in one of his poems:

I'm gone, my eye is left,

There is a living difference in the test.

My hair like a memory of love

He has grown up in his youth...

he says.

Oibek was an accomplished novelist as well as a skilled poet. Epic canvases created by him such as "Kutlug blood", "Navoi", "Ulug' yol", "Breezes from the Golden Valley", "The sun does not darken" constitute an important period in the development of Uzbek realistic prose.

The national liberation uprising of the Uzbek people in 1916 was realistically expressed in the writer's novel "Good Blood" (1940); In the novel "Navoi" (1944), the image of the great poet and thinker Alisher Navoi was created for the first time in Uzbek literature.

Breezes from the Golden Valley (1949) depicts the creative work of our people in the post-war period, and the tragedies of the Second World War are expressed in the novel "The Sun Goes Dark" (1958). And the writer's work "Ulug' yol" (1967) is a logical continuation of the novel "Kutlug' khan", in which the writer shows the formation of the national consciousness of the people.

Aybek traveled to Pakistan in 1949. Adib described the life, struggles and aspirations of the brotherly people in his essays "Memories of Pakistan", a series of poems, "Zafar va Zahro", "Haqgoylar" epics, and finally in the short story "Looking for Light". The author's autobiographical story "My childhood memories" was created in 1963. The main character of the story is young Musa, that is, Aybek himself.

Aibek is not only a talented poet, a great writer, but also a famous scientist, publicist, critic, translator and public figure. The Uzbek reader was able to read Pushkin's poetic novel "Eugene Onegin", Lermontov's "Masquerade", Moliere's dramas "Tartufe", as well as samples of ancient literature translated by Oibek.

In 1943, Oybek was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan and until 1950 worked as the chairman of the department of social sciences and the first secretary of the Writers' Union of Uzbekistan. He is a teacher who made a great contribution to the training of highly qualified philologists.

The writer's works further increased the global fame of Uzbek literature. Master's skill has become a creative drug for young writers. A set of 20 volumes of complete works of the writer has been published. In this sense, his immortal works took a firm place in our spiritual treasury and became the property of the nation.

People's writer of Uzbekistan Oybek was awarded the Order of Merit for his great contribution to the development of Uzbek literature and culture in 2000.

From the book “Uzbek writers” (S. Mirvaliyev, R. Shokirova. Tashkent, Gafur Gulom Publishing House of Literature and Art 2016).