Payrav Sulaymānī

Payrav Sulaymānī () was a Tajik writer and poet from Bukhara. A reformer of traditional Tajik poetic metrics.

Early life

Ātajān Payrav Sulaymānī was born on April 15, 1899, in Bukhara (then part of Emirate of Bukhara) in a family of Tajik merchants. He received his primary education at a madrasa in Merv in Persian language. From 1916 to 1917, he studied at a Russian school in Kogon.

Between 1921 and 1922, he served as the Second Secretary at the Embassy of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic in Afghanistan. After returning home, he devoted himself to literary and creative work. He later worked as an editor and translator at the State Publishing House of Tajikistan.

The grave of the famous Tajik and Soviet poet, writer, and translator Peyrav Suleymani in Samarkand (Uzbekistan), at the Khazret Khyzr Cemetery.

He is a father of Gulchēhra Sulaymānī.

References

See also

  • Tajik literature