Mirsaid Mirshakar

Mirsaid Mirshakar or Mirsaid Mirshakarov (5 May 1912 – 1 August 1993) was a Soviet and Tajikistani poet, writer, dramatist and editor. A representative of the Supreme Council of the SSR of Tajikistan, a member of the Central Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan, the chairman of the Republican Committee of Sympathy with Asian and African Countries, a member of the Presidium of the Soviet Committee of Sympathy with Asian and African Countries, a member of the board of the Union of Writers of Tajikistan.
Life and career
Mirsaid Mirshakar was the son of a farmer, born in the village of Sindev, Pamir, Russian Empire, now Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, Tajikistan. He graduated from the Central Soviet Party School in Dushanbe in 1930, and his works began to appear in print the same year. He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1944 and was the People's Poet of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in 1962.
From 1932 to 33, Mirshakar served as the editor of the newspaper Sokhtmoni Vakhsh. He wrote narrative poems glorifying historic events in the life of the Tajik people after the October Revolution. Mirshakar was considered one of the founders of Tajik children's literature. His writings for children were the subject of the doctoral thesis of literary critic Jonon Bobokalonova.
Mirshakar served as the executive secretary of the Writers’ Union in Tadzhik from 1940 to 1943 and from 1946 to 1959. He also served in a number of administrative positions, including Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR. For his service as a poet, Mirshakar was awarded several state prizes for his works.
Honors and awards
Two Orders of Lenin
Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour
Two Orders of the Badge of Honour
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Order of the October Revolution
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Stalin Prize
Works
Selected works include:
The Golden Kishlak, 1942
She’rho va poëmaho, Dushanbe, 1945
The Turbulent Piandzh, 1949
She’rho va dostonho, Dushanbe, 1954
Lenin in the Pamirs, 1955
Kulliyot, parts 1–3, Dushanbe, 1970–73
Stikhotvoreniia i poemy, Moscow, 1951
Love and Duty, 1962
Lenin’s Gaze, 1962
Liubov’ i dolg. Poemy, Moscow, 1964
Polovod’ia zhizni, Moscow, 1972
Plays
Tashbek and Gul’kubran, 1946
The Golden Kishlak, 1949
My City, 1951
References
1912 births
1993 deaths
20th-century dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Tajikistani poets
20th-century Tajikistani writers
People from Fergana Oblast
People from Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Children's poets
Male dramatists and playwrights
Socialist realism writers
Soviet children's writers
Soviet dramatists and playwrights
Soviet male poets
Soviet male writers
Soviet newspaper editors
Tajikistani children's writers
Tajikistani dramatists and playwrights
Tajikistani male writers
Tajik poets