Zulfiya Mo‘minova

Zulfiya Mo‘minova is one of the young poets who entered Uzbek literature in the 80s. She drew inspiration from masters such as Abdulla Oripov, Erkin Vohidov, Omon Matjon, and Halima Khudoyberdiyeva. The poet's skill increased from collection to collection, her scope of exploration expanded, and she attracted the attention of readers with her bold voice.

Biography

In Zulfiya's work, the poetry collection «Yonayotgan ayol» («Burning Woman») was particularly well received by readers, the literary community, and especially the public.

Zulfiya Mo‘minova was born in 1959 in the Narpay district of the Samarkand region. "Since our village is located on the slope of the Horatov mountain, it has an incredibly serene and beautiful nature," she writes in her biography.

- People who know oral folk art well and perform it well live here. Among them, my late grandfather was called Mo‘min the Oqin (bard).

My grandfather recited epics for several hours at a time. Years passed, and the admiration for folk songs sowed the seeds of longing for poetry in my soul.

I became one of the young poets who entered Uzbek literature in the 80s. There was not a week or a day in those years without debates and conversations about poetry. I was tempered in these debates and discussions. I drew inspiration from masters such as Abdulla Oripov, Erkin Vohidov, Omon Matjon, and Halima Khudoyberdiyeva...» (she concludes).

In those years, Zulfiya graduated from the "Philology" faculty of Tashkent State University (1983). She worked at the magazine «Saodat» and on the radio.

The poet's first poetry collection was published in 1988 under the title «Vatan tashlab ketmaydi» («The Homeland Does Not Abandon»). In the same year, her poetry book «Beshiklarni asragin, dunyo» («Protect the Cradles, World») was published, and in 1993, «Yonayotgan ayol» («Burning Woman») saw the light of day.

The poet's skill increased from collection to collection. In the collection «Beshiklarni asragin, dunyo», the poet's scope of exploration expanded, and she attracted the attention of readers with her bold voice. In Zulfiya's work, the poetry collection «Yonayotgan ayol» was particularly well received by readers, the literary community, and especially the public.

She admires everyone, good people, beauty and freedom, chaste and modest women, kind and compassionate mothers, and the beauty of nature and the Homeland. At the same time, she becomes impatient with bad people and ugly hearts, and her hatred cannot be contained. Look:

I said the world is good, I said the world is a flower,
The bad said, the world is bad.
Before I could reach the good ones,
The bad ones ate my heart.

The poet's new poetic gift is called «Azizim, baxtiyorman» («My Dear, I Am Happy») (1997).