Abdulla Qahhor

Who is Abdulla Qahhor?

Abdulla Qahhor was an Uzbek novelist, short story writer, and translator. Qahhor received a National Writer of the Uzbek SSR award in 1967 and was given the prestigious State Stalin Prize in 1952. Qahhor is considered to be one of the best Uzbek writers of the 20th century and has been called the "Chekhov" of Uzbeks.

Qahhor is best remembered as the author of the 1951 novel Qoʻshchinor and 1958 story Sinchalak. In addition to writing numerous short stories and novels, Qahhor translated the works of many famous Russian writers, such as Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, and Nikolai Gogol into the Uzbek language. He translated into Uzbek The Captain's Daughter of Pushkin, Marriage and The Government Inspector of Gogol, and, together with his wife Kibriyo Qahhorova, War and Peace of Leo Tolstoy.