Mahkam Mahmudov

Mahkam Mahmudov initially started as a poet. Later, he turned to prose and has been creating works on historical themes and in the science fiction genre. He is currently on the verge of finishing a satirical work titled Eh, Odamlar. For his services to literature, he was awarded the "El-Yurt Hurmati" (1998) order.

Biography

Prose writer and literary scholar Mahkam Mahmudov was born in 1940 in the Asaka district of the Andijan region. After studying at the Muqimiy school in the city of Andijan from 1947 to 1957, he studied at Tashkent State University from 1957 to 1962. From the 60s to this day, he has worked in newspaper and magazine editorial offices and publishing houses. Currently, he is working as a literary contributor at the magazine Muloqot. Mahkam Mahmudov initially started as a poet. Later, he turned to prose and has been creating works on historical themes and in the science fiction genre.

While his novellas, stories, and sketches such as Bibixonim, Shohlar Malikasi, Movarounnahr Yulduzi, Sulton Mahmud G‘aznaviy, Boysung‘ur ibn Shohruh, and Imom Zayniddin G‘azzoliy were created on historical themes, he turned to the science fiction genre in works such as Men - Men Emasman, Teskari Ko‘zlar Sayyorasi, Sirli Qasr, and Mangu Kuy Izlab.

Mahkam Mahmudov has also been productively creating as a literary scholar. His works such as Talant va Ijod Falsafasi (1976), Abadiyat Lahzalari (1981), and Hayrat va Tafakkur (1992) have attracted the attention of the literary and scientific community. As a candidate of philological sciences, he lectured on Uzbek and foreign literature at the M. Uyg‘ur Institute of Arts and the A. Qodiriy Institute of Culture. Mahkam Mahmudov has also worked as a translator, translating Aristotle's Poetics, Balzac's novel The Wild Ass's Skin, Andersen's fairy tales, Stefan Zweig's novella collection Kuygan Ko‘ngil Faryodi (with O‘tkir Hoshimov), and Oscar Wilde's stories The Star Child and The Devoted Friend, among other works, into the Uzbek language.

He is currently on the verge of finishing a satirical work titled Eh, Odamlar.

For his services to literature, he was awarded the "El-Yurt Hurmati" (1998) order.