Uygʻun

Uyg‘un (Birth name , , romanized Rakhmatulla Atakuziev, Уйгун (Uighun/Uyghun/Uygun), 22 April 1990) was an Uzbek poet, dramatist, writer, and politician. He received many high honors for his work including Hero of Socialist Labour and People's Poet of the Uzbek SSR.

Early life Uyg‘un born on as Rahmatulla Otaqoʻziyev in the village of Merki, (located in present-day Jambyl oblast, Kazakhstan) to a working-class family. He enrolled in the Tashkent Pedagogical College in 1925 and graduated in 1925. He then worked as a teacher of literature at an Agricultural College. In 1927 his first poems were published in several magazines. That year he entered the Pedagogical Academy in Samarkand, graduating in 1930. Previously in 1929 a collection of his poems “Joys of Spring” was published. After graduating he went back to working as a teacher before his writing career took off.

Career From 1930 to 1931 he worked at the magazine Qurilish, then he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Language and Literature from 1933 to 1943. Meanwhile, he worked at the Institute of Culture from 1932 to 1933 and from 1947 to 1948 he worked as a deputy artistic director at the drama theater named after Hamza. He then started working at the magazine "Sharq yulduzi", becoming its editor-in-chief in 1950. However, he did not hold the post for long, as he became the chairman of the Board of the Union of Writers of the Uzbek SSR in 1951, and served as chairman there until 1954. In 1974 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR.

He died of a long illness in Tashkent on 22 April 1990. Three Orders of Lenin (6 December 1951, 2 July 1971, 14 May 1985) Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (16 January 1950 and 18 March 1959) Order of Friendship of Peoples (4 March 1980) People's Poet of the Uzbek SSR (17 May 1965) State Hamza Prize (1967)