Biography
His father, Kasym Zulfikarov, a Tajik, was for some time the People's Commissar of the abolished Bukhara Republic, repressed in 1937. Russian Russian mother Lyudmila Vladimirovna Uspenskaya was a professor at the Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature of the Dushanbe State Pedagogical Institute. Doctor of Philological Sciences.
Zulfikarov entered the Faculty of Philology at LSU, then transferred to the Literary Institute named after him. Gorky, who graduated in 1961.
He considers the lyric-epic work "The Death of Amir Timur", written in 1971, to be the beginning of his work Author of 20 books of prose and poetry, the circulation of which exceeded 1 million copies. His novels about Khoja Nasreddin, Omar Khayyam, Ivan the Terrible, Amir Timur and a monumental narrative about the life and afterlife of a modern poet — "The Earthly and Heavenly Wanderings of the poet" became widely known. This work was awarded the Collets Prize (England) for "The Best Novel in Europe-93". Some media reported that Timur Zulfikarov was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 and 2000. Zulfikarov is also a laureate of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award for "Outstanding Work of Fiction of Russian Literature" in 2004 (for the book "The Golden Parables of Khoja Nasreddin"), the Best Book of the Year award in 2005 (for the novel "Coral Efa"), the Anton Delvig Prize (2008), the Hartley-Merrill Award" (Hollywood) for Best Screenplay (1991). Winner of the 5th All—Russian Poetry Contest "Prophet Muhammad - Mercy for the Worlds" (2011). Winner of the prize named after Nikolai Leskov "Lefty" (2016) in the genre of literary journalism. He was repeatedly nominated for the Bunin Prize (2010, 2012, 2015) and only in 2017 became its laureate (for the book "Golden Letters of Love").
He works a lot and fruitfully in the field of drama theater and cinema. The author of scripts for more than 20 feature films and documentaries, many of which have been awarded by national and international festivals. Including: "A man goes after birds" (directed by A. Khamraev, 1974) — MK in Delhi, the Silver Peacock prize; "Black Chicken, or Underground Inhabitants" (directed by V. Gres, 1980) — The Main prize of the Moscow MK; "Mirages of Love" (directed by T. Okeev, 1986) — the Golden Saber prize — MK in Damascus.
It is regularly published in periodicals: the newspaper "Tomorrow", "Literary Newspaper", the newspaper "Slovo".
The Nika Award in 2001 was awarded to a romance based on Zulfikarov's poems to the arthouse melodrama "Listen, isn't it Raining" performed by singer Lina Mkrtchyan, written by composer Isaac Schwartz.
In 2009, the publishing house "Fiction" published a collection of works in 7 volumes.
All Zulfikarov's works are written in Russian.
Bibliography
"Poems of Wanderings" — Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1980. — 480 p. - 100,000 copies.
"Two legends about love" — Dushanbe: Irfon, 1980. — 204 p.
"Sages, kings, poets" — Moscow: Izvestia, 1983. — 432 p. — 265,000 copies. (Library of "Friendship of Peoples")
"Emirs. Wise men. Poets" — Dushanbe: Irfon, 1983. — 384 p. - 14,000 copies.
"Tattabubu" poems — Moscow: Soviet writer, 1984. — 344 p. - 30,000 copies.
"The first love of Khoja Nasreddin", Dushanbe: Maorif, 1985. — 160 p. — 50,000 copies.
"The hunt of King Bahram-Gur Sasanid" poems, poems. — Dushanbe: Irfon, 1986. — 384 p. — 25,000 copies.
"The Return of Khoja Nasreddin" — Ill. A. Gangalyuk. — Dushanbe: Maorif, 1987. — 480 p. - 50,000 copies.
"The first love of Khoja Nasreddin" — Moscow: Soviet Writer, 1989. — 704 p. — 100,000 copies. ISBN 5-265-00895-0
"The Poet's Earthly and heavenly wanderings" — Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1990. — 446 p. - 65,000 copies. (Collets Award, 1993)
"Love, wisdom, death of a dervish" — Dushanbe: Adib, 1990. — 528 p. - 35,000 copies. ISBN 5-8362-0218-4
"The Azure Wanderer on the Golden Road" (Chants of Russia and Asia): Poems, poems, parables. 1962-1988. — Preface by V. Lichutin. Artist V. Kotanov. — M.: Sovremennik, 1991. — 382 p.; ill. — ISBN 5-270-00932-3
"Favorites" — Moscow: Terra, 1992. — 752 p.: ill. — (Literature). — 10,000 copies . ISBN 5-85255-108-X
"The Book of death of Amir Timur" — Minsk: Beladi, 1998. — 192 p.
"Scarlet Gypsy" — Moscow: Moscow writer, 1999. — 424 p.
