Uzbek poet, playwright, literary translator, and statesman
Erkin Vohidov Эркин Воҳидов
Erkin Vohidov in 2006
Born
(1936-12-28)December 28, 1936 Oltiariq District, Fergana Region Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
Died
May 30, 2016 (2016-05-31) (aged 79) Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Occupation
Poet, playwright, literary translator, statesman
Notable awards
Lenin Komsomol Prize (1967)
State Hamza Prize (1983)
People's Poet of the Uzbek SSR (1987)
Hero of Uzbekistan (1999)
Erkin Vohidov (Uzbek: Erkin Vohidov / Эркин Воҳидов; December 28, 1936 – May 30, 2016) was an Uzbek poet, playwright, literary translator, and statesman.[1] In addition to writing his own poetry, Vohidov translated the works of many famous foreign poets, such as Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Muhammad Iqbal, Rasul Gamzatov, and Sergey Yesenin into the Uzbek language. Particularly noteworthy are his translations of Yesenin's works and Goethe's Faust.
In 1983, Vahidov was awarded the State Hamza Prize. He became a People's Poet of Uzbekistan in 1987. In 1999, he was awarded the title Hero of Uzbekistan, the highest honorary title that can be bestowed on a citizen by Uzbekistan.[2]
Vohidov's poems remain popular and are frequently published in anthologies. Dozens of his poems have been set to music by various artists, mostly notably by Sherali Joʻrayev. On occasion of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations in October 2020, a song entitled "Human" and based on Vohidov's poem "Inson" ("Human") was released with lyrics in Arabic, English, Italian, Kazakh, Russian, Tajik, Turkish and Uzbek.[3]
^"Vohidov, Erkin". Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Uzbek). Vol. 1. Tashkent: Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia. 1988. p. 166. 5-89890-002-0.
^"Эркин Вахидов" [Erkin Vohidov]. Literature.uz (in Russian). Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
^Moʻminova, Munojat (23 October 2020). ""Инсон" қасидасини 8 тилда қўшиқ қилиш ғояси қандай пайдо бўлди?" [How did the idea to turn the ode "Human" into a song in eight languages come about?]. Yuz (in Uzbek). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
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