Shukrullo

Shukrullo (his name and pseudonym; surname Yusupov) (February 9, 1921, Tashkent) — People's Poet of Uzbekistan (1981). Honored Cultural Worker of Uzbekistan (1977). He graduated from the Pedagogical School (1935–38) and the Tashkent Pedagogical Institute named after Nizami (1944). He worked as a teacher in Karakalpakstan in 1938 and in Tashkent from 1939 to 1945. Later, he was a consultant at the Writers' Union of Uzbekistan (1945–49) and an editor at the State Publishing House of Uzbekistan (1945–51; 1955–65). In 1951, he was accused of nationalism and anti-Soviet propaganda and sentenced to 25 years in prison; he was released after Stalin's death (1955).

His first collection of poems is "Birinchi daftar" ("First Notebook") (1949). After that, his poetry collections such as "Qalb qo‘shiqlari" ("Songs of the Heart") (1949), "Hayot ilhomlari" ("Inspirations of Life") (1959), "Umrim boricha" ("As Long as I Live") (1960), "Inson va yaxshilik" ("Man and Goodness") (1961), "Inson — inson uchun" ("Man for Man") (1964), "Zarralar" ("Particles") (1973), "Suyanchiq" ("Support") (1977), "Yashagim keladi" ("I Want to Live") (1978), "Sening baxting" ("Your Happiness") (1988), and "To‘kilgan dardlarim" ("My Poured-Out Sorrows") (2001) were published. In his lyrical poems, Shukrullo glorified human values such as love and loyalty, kindness and compassion, striving to awaken in the reader a feeling of hatred toward vices such as laziness, apathy, arrogance, envy, and malice. He showed the changes occurring in the inner world of the lyrical hero by depicting the intrinsic connection between man and society, and man and nature.

Shukrullo wrote the narrative poems "Chollar" ("Old Men") (1948), "Rossiya" ("Russia") (1956), "Ikki qoya" ("Two Rocks") (1964), "26 tong otari" ("26 Dawns") (1966), "Gul va otash" ("Flower and Fire") (1972), "Ko‘ngil chirog‘i" ("Lamp of the Soul") (1975), "Asr bahsi" ("Discussion of the Century") (1985), and others. His poems and fairy tales dedicated to children were included in the poetry collections "Bahor sovg‘asi" ("Spring Gift") (1962) and "Yulduzlar" ("Stars") (1964). He is the author of "Xatarli yo‘l" ("Dangerous Path") (1962), "Tabassum o‘g‘rilari" ("Thieves of Smiles") (1964), "To‘ydan keyin tomosha" ("Spectacle After the Wedding") (1980), "O‘g‘rini qaroqchi urdi" ("The Robber Struck the Thief") (1982), the essay "Javohirlar sandig‘i" ("Chest of Jewels") (1983) which discusses the creative experiences of master writers, the autobiographical novella about the horrors of the repression era "Kafansiz ko‘milganlar" ("Those Buried Without Shrouds") (1989), the collection of journalistic articles "Qasosli dunyo" ("Revengeful World") (1994), and the novel-chronicle about Ubaydulla Khojayev "Tirik ruhlar" ("Living Souls") (1999).

Shukrullo translated Carlo Gozzi's play "The Happy Beggars," and poems by Sh. Petofi, T. Shevchenko, Q. Quliyev, and other poets into the Uzbek language. His works have been published in Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Karakalpak, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz languages. Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi (1994). He has been awarded the "Do‘stlik" ("Friendship") (1994) and "El-yurt hurmati" (1999) orders.