Oʻtkir Hoshimov
Oʻtkir Hoshimov Ўткир Ҳошимов | |
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| Born | 5 August 1941 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 24 May 2013 (aged 71) Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| Occupation | Writer, playwright, journalist, and literary translator |
| Literary movement | Socialist realism and realism |
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Oʻtkir Hoshimov (5 August 1941 — 24 May 2013) was an Uzbek writer, playwright, journalist, and literary translator. His most popular work is his 1985 novel Ikki eshik orasi, for which he received the State Hamza Prize. In 1991, he became a People's Writer of the Uzbek SSR.
During his long career he wrote many popular short stories. He also wrote several plays, including Toʻylar muborak, which was adapted into film in 1978. Hoshimov also translated the works of foreign authors, including Ernest Hemingway and Konstantin Simonov, into Uzbek.