Oybek

Muso Toshmuhammad o'g'li Oybek, the great writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and People's Writer of Uzbekistan, who made a huge and invaluable contribution to the development of 20th-century Uzbek literature, was born on January 10, 1905, in Tashkent into a weaver's family. He first studied at a secondary school, and from 1922 to 1925, he attended the Tashkent Education and Training Technical School. Then he continued his studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Central Asian State University.

Muso Toshmuhammad o'g'li Oybek graduated from the university in 1930 and taught political economy there. Oybek entered literature in 1926 with his poetry collection «Tuyg'ular» (Feelings). The poet's epics «Dilbar - davr qizi» (1931), «O'ch» (1932), «Baxtigul va Sog'indiq», and «Temirchi Jo'ra» (1933) are the poetic chronicles of their time. He created nearly twenty epics on historical and modern themes. Oybek's poetry is extremely beautiful and stands out for being created in a simple, fluent, and expressive language, and with rich and colorful artistic means of imagery.

Oybek was a mature novelist as well as a skilled poet. The epic canvases he created, such as «Qutlug' qon» (Sacred Blood), «Navoiy», «Ulug' yo'l» (Great Way), «Oltin vodiydan shabadalar» (Breezes from the Golden Valley), and «Quyosh qoraymas» (The Sun Does Not Darken), constitute an important period in the development of Uzbek realistic novel writing.

While the 1916 national liberation uprising of the Uzbek people was realistically expressed with great skill in the writer's novel «Qutlug' qon» (1940), the image of the great poet and thinker Alisher Navoiy was created for the first time in Uzbek literature in the novel «Navoiy» (1944).

In his novel «Navoiy», Oybek is a person who artistically embodied the life of the Uzbek people from 500 years ago through the figure of Navoiy.

His work «Oltin vodiydan shabadalar» (1949) reflects the creative work of our people in the post-war period, and his novel «Quyosh qoraymas» (1958) depicts the tragedies of the Second World War. The writer's work «Ulug' yo'l» (1977) is a logical continuation of the novel «Qutlug' qon», in which the writer sought to show the formation of the national consciousness of the people.

Oybek traveled to Pakistan in 1949. The writer depicted the life, struggles, and aspirations of the brotherly people in his sketches «Pokiston xotiralari», a series of poems, the epics «Zafar va Zahro» and «Haqgo'ylar», and finally, in the novella «Nur qidirib». The writer's autobiographical novella «Bolalik xotiralarim» (My Childhood Memories) was written in 1963. The main character of the novella is young Muso, that is, Oybek himself.

Oybek was not only a talented poet and a major prose writer, but also a famous scholar, publicist, critic, translator, and public figure. Uzbek readers were fortunate to read Pushkin's verse novel «Eugene Onegin», Lermontov's drama «Masquerade», Moliere's drama «Tartuffe», as well as examples of ancient literature in Oybek's translation.

In 1943, Oybek was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan and worked as the chairman of the social sciences department at the academy and the first secretary of the Writers' Union of Uzbekistan until 1950. He was a mentor who contributed greatly to the training of highly qualified philologists. He was awarded the titles of People's Writer of Uzbekistan and laureate of the State Prize of the Republic named after Hamza.

The writer's works further increased the worldwide fame of Uzbek literature. The master's skill became a creative university for young writers. Oybek's immortal works took a firm place in our spiritual treasure house and became the property of the entire nation.

Oybek died on July 1, 1968, at the age of 63. After his death, a 20-volume collection of his complete works was published.

The writer was awarded the «Buyuk xizmatlari uchun» (For Great Services) order during the independence period (2000).

Works

«Cholg'u tovushi» (1922, first poem, published in the «Tong yulduzi» newspaper)
«Tuyg'ular» (1926, first collection)
«Ko'ngil naylari» (1929)
«Mash'ala» (1932)
«Baxtigul va Sog'indiq» (1933, poetry collection)
«Baxtigul va Sog'indik» (1934, epic)
«Quyosh qoraymas» (1943-1958, military-themed novel, for which the «Olovli yo'llar» collection served as a sketch (draft, artistic basis))
«Qizlar» (1947, epic)
«O'ch» (1932, epic)
«Xamza» (1948, epic)
«Bobo» (epic, autobiographical in nature)
«Temirchi Jo'ra» (1933)
«Qutlug' qon» (1940)
Works like «O'ch» served as "leaven"
«Bolalik» (1963, autobiographical work)
«Nur qidirib» (1958)
«Ulug' ayol» (1967, this novel depicts life events from 1917-1922)
«Gulnor ona»
«Fanorchi ota»
«Na'matak»
«Yer»
«Turmush yo'lida»
«Tog' sayri»
«Abadiyat va umr»
«Tepaga chiqamen, soyga tushamen»
«Quyosh qo'shig'i»
«Mashrab» (1937)
«Oltin vodiydan shabadalar» (1949, for this work the epic «Qizlar» was a sketch, characters: Uktam, Sayramov, Komila, etc.)
«Guli va Navoiy» (1968, epic)
«Alisherning bolaligi» (this novella was published in 1974)
«O'zbekiston» (1934)
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