Zulfiya's life and work (video, screenplay)

Zulfiya (pseudonym; full name Zulfiya Isroilova 01.03.1915 Tashkent –01.08.1996) is a well-known Uzbek poet, journalist, translator, public figure. People's Poet of Uzbekistan (1965). Hero of Labor (1984). Zulfiya was born on March 1915, 1 in Tashkent in the family of an Israeli blacksmith. From 1922 to 1931 she attended school, then from 1931 to 1934 in a girls' school.

The poet, who started her career very early, worked in journalism and publishing for almost a lifetime. From 1935 to 1938 he was a graduate student of the Institute of Language and Literature under the Committee of Sciences of Uzbekistan, from 1938 editor of the Children's Publishing House, head of the department of the Uzbek State Publishing House (1941-1950), from 1953 to 1953 head of the magazine "Saodat". Until, for almost thirty years, he worked as the Editor-in-Chief of this magazine.

Zulfiya, the wife of the famous Uzbek poet Hamid Olimjon, died on August 1996, 1.

His first poem was published in 1931 in the newspaper "Ishchi". The first collection of poems "Sheets of Life" was published in 1932. After that, his books of poetry "Temiroy" (1934), "Poems", "Girls' Song" (1939) were published. The radiance of his poetry is connected with the collections "They called him Farhod" (1943), "In the days of Hijran" (1944) and "Hulkar" (1947). In particular, the poems written after the untimely death of Hamid Alimjan (1944), full of spiritual series and heartache, testified to significant changes in Zulfiya's work. Through her portrayal of personal tragedy, Zulfiya expresses the pain and anguish of a nation that emerged from World War II with great losses and casualties.

In the second half of the 50s, Zulfiya took an active part in the movement of Asian and African writers under the motto of peace and international solidarity, visiting many countries around the world. His travels to India, Egypt, Japan and neighboring republics left a deep mark on the poet’s work. Poems such as "Mushoira", "My son, there will never be a war", "Kazakhstan's grasslands", "A picture I did not draw" brought Zulfiya fame. The scope of life depicted in 3ulfiya's poems expanded, and scenes of the life of foreign peoples entered her work. Since the 70s, a rainbow of new colors has appeared in the image of national life in the work of 3ulfiya, realism and emotion have increased. The principle of philosophical perception of reality, which began with a bouquet of poems "Thoughts" (1965), continued in the books of poems "Visol" (1972), "Years, years…" (1975) and showed the beginning of a real artistic growth in Zulfiya's work. He returned to the epic genre and wrote the epic "Sunny Pen" (1970), dedicated to the last journey of teacher Oybek. At the same time, the poet wrote a series of poems dedicated to children ("Lola-Doq", 1975).

Zulfiya devoted an important part of her life to the study and publication of Hamid Alimjan's literary heritage. As an integral part of this process, he wrote the poem "Semurg" (in collaboration with S. Somova) for the puppet theater based on the poet's epic "Semurg or Parizod and Bunyod" and the libretto of the opera "Zaynab and Omon".

A. S. Pushkin, M. Yu. Lermontov. N. A. Nekrasov, M. Voqif, L. Ukrainka, M. Dilboziy, S. Kaputikyan, E. Ognetsvet, Mustay Karim, Amrita Pritam, E. He translated the works of Bagryana and others into Uzbek.

Zulfiya's works have been published in many foreign languages, as well as in the languages ​​of the fraternal Turkic peoples. Zulfiya is a laureate of the International Jawaharlal Nehru Prize (1968), the Nilufar Prize (1971) and the Hamza State Prize of Uzbekistan (1970). He was also awarded the Bulgarian Order of Cyril and Methodius (1972).