Izzat Sultan (1910–2001)

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Izzat Sultan, a great literary critic and playwright, was born in 1910 in Osh. After the death of his father, he was brought up in an orphanage. In 1924 he came to Tashkent to study. He first studied at the Namuna business school and then at the educational college. After graduating from technical school, he worked as a teacher in schools.

In 1930, Izzat Sultan studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Central Asian State University. He is the executive secretary of the Samarkand-based Batrak newspaper. In 1934 he entered the graduate school of the Institute of Language and Literature, graduating in 1937.

From 1943 to 1948 he held senior positions. From 1948 to the end of his life he served at the Institute of Language and Literature named after Alisher Navoi of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.

Izzat Sultan, who has been publishing literary articles in the periodicals since 1932, created the textbook Literary Theory. Of particular importance are a number of works by the researcher dedicated to the study of the legacy of the great Uzbek poet and thinker Alisher Navoi.

As a comprehensive scholar and literary critic, he is the author of dozens of leading works on folklore, classical literature, the modern literary process, fraternal and world literature, and literary theory.

Izzat Sultan was also a prolific writer in the field of fiction. The play "The Unknown Man" is important in terms of educating young people in the spirit of patriotism. Alisher Navoi's (1941) co-written with Uygun became one of the achievements of Uzbek drama. Navoi's Notebook of the Heart was a significant event in literary criticism.

The dramas "Iman" (1960), "Qaqnus", "Yangi odamlar" discuss spiritual and moral values, high human qualities. Fidoyi (1966) shows that goodness is a powerful force in the struggle between humor and superstition. His works "I did not see the thorn", "The youth of the sage", "The last days of Abdullah Qadiri", "In the captivity of the moon last night" played an important role in his work.

Izzat Sultan, a full member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Honored Worker of Science and Arts of Uzbekistan, laureate of the Beruni State Prize, is a literary scholar who has left a significant mark in the field of art.

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