Hamid Olimjon
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| Born | Hamid Olimjonov December 12, 1909 Jizzakh, Russian Turkestan |
| Died | July 3, 1944 (aged 34) Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR |
| Occupation | poet, playwright, scholar, and literary translator |
Hamid Olimjon (sometimes spelled Hamid Alimjan in English) (Uzbek: Ҳамид Олимжон; Hamid Olimjon; Russian: Хамид Алимджан; Khamid Alimdzhan) (12 December 1909 – 3 July 1944) was an Uzbek poet, playwright, scholar, and literary translator of the Soviet period. Hamid Olimjon is considered to be one of the finest twentieth-century Uzbek poets. The Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia calls him "one of the founders of Uzbek Soviet literature". In addition to writing his own poetry, Hamid Olimjon translated the works of many famous foreign authors, such as Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Taras Shevchenko, and Mikhail Lermontov into the Uzbek language.
Hamid Olimjon was married to the renowned Uzbek poet Zulfiya. He died in a car accident on July 3, 1944, in Tashkent. He was 34 years old at the time of his death.
Hamid Olimjon was born on December 12, 1909 in Jizzakh. Hamid Olimjon's father died when he was only four years old. From 1918 until 1923, he studied at Narimonov Elementary School in Jizzakh.
Hamid Olimjon studied at the Samarkand Pedagogical University from 1923 until 1928. From 1928 until 1931, he studied at the Uzbek Pedagogical Academy. Hamid Olimjon became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1942.
In 1935, Hamid Olimjon married the renowned Uzbek poet Zulfiya. He died in a car accident on July 3, 1944, in Tashkent. He was 34 years old at the time of his death.
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