TOGHAY MUROD
National writer of Uzbekistan

 

         Toghay Murod was born on February 3 1948 in Denov district of Surkhandarya region. He graduated from Tashkent State University (National University) in 1972. He started his career in Uzbekistan State Radio, and then he worked for editorial offices in Tashkent. "Starts shine forever" (1977), T. Murod's first novel became lightning in Uzbek literature. It described famous Uzbek sport - kurash and life of Uzbek wrestlers. Toghay Murod's novels "The night when a horse neighed", "People in the moonlight" and "Song of the motherland" were great events in Uzbek literature. He wrote his novel "The fields left by my father" in 1994. Toghay Murod's prizes include prize named after Oybek, State Award named after Abdulla Kadiri and the best writer of the year 2001. He translated a collection of short stories by Ernest Seton-Thompson.
         A novel "One can not dies in this world" is the last novel of the writer. It is unique with its philosophy and originality of the theme. The main thing in Toghay Murod's works is its language, music in the language. N his works he showed beauty of Uzbek language, original writing style and skillfulness.
        Toghay Murod passed away in 2003.