Anvar Eshonov

Anvar Eshonov is a writer who began his career in the 60s; his first poetry collection is titled "Bir Og'iz So'z" (A Single Word, 1963). In the poet's verse, words are strung like pearls, expressing the diverse colors awakened in his heart and refined in his experiences.

The poet and prose writer Anvar Eshonov was born in 1937 in Tashkent. After finishing secondary school, he received his education at Tashkent State University.

He graduated in 1960 and began his career working as an editor at the Republican Radio Committee (1960). Later, he served as a correspondent for the republic's central newspapers.

In 1972-1975, he worked at the Literature Promotion Bureau of the Writers' Union of Uzbekistan, and subsequently at the magazine "Guliston" (1975-1976).

Anvar Eshonov passed away in 1996.

Career

Anvar Eshonov's early works date back to the 60s.

His first poetry collection is titled "Bir Og'iz So'z" (A Single Word, 1963), and the poet himself wrote about this: "With a single word, a man can become a king; with a single word, a man can become a beggar. I came to literature to say a single word. That is why I titled my book 'A Single Word'."

The brilliance and meaning of that single word he intended to convey are embodied in the writer's poetry and prose collections such as "Dutor" (1967), "Registon" (1971), "Evropada Qolgan Qabrlar" (Graves Left in Europe, 1975), "Yigirma Million Oppoq Kabutar" (Twenty Million White Pigeons, 1976), "Non Isi" (The Smell of Bread, 1977), and "Bu Yillar" (These Years, 1982).

In particular, the artistic attire draped over his poems is unique to the poet's pen, style, and sensibility. Look:

Where is my peppermint scent, where are my spring eyes,

When the paths parted, I forgot my own self.

My childhood passed burning in its longing - my grayness,

Will those fiery eyes of mine not return like cranes?

In the poet's verse, words are strung like pearls, expressing the diverse colors awakened in his heart and refined in his experiences. In life and among friends, Anvar Eshonov was as sincere, modest, and laconic as that single word.