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Furqat

1858 - 1909

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Zokirjon Xolmuhammad oʻgʻli (Uzbek: Zokirjon Xolmuhammad oʻgʻli, Зокиржон Ҳолмуҳаммад ўғли) (1859–1909), better known by his pen name Furqat, was an Uzbek author, poet, and political activist. He had a major influence on the development of modern Uzbek literature. He wrote one of the earliest pamphlets and satirical articles in Uzbek. Furqat, like may other writers of the tsarist colonial period, was forced to praise the Russian Empire and its culture in his work. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Furqat is the 5,380th most popular writer (down from 5,174th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Uzbekistan and the 8th most popular Uzbekistani Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Furqat ranks 5,380 out of 7,302. Before him are Willi Apel, Izzat Ghazzawi, Pat Barker, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, and Paddy Chayefsky. After him are Fang Fang, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Guerra Junqueiro, László Németh, and Jacques Chessex.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Furqat ranks 126. Before him are Liberty Hyde Bailey, Dimitar Petkov, José Leite de Vasconcelos, Mary Harrison McKee, Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, and Victorino Márquez Bustillos. After him are János Fadrusz, Willard Metcalf, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Joseph Thomson, George Washington Goethals, and Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst. Among people deceased in 1909, Furqat ranks 86. Before him are Fazlullah Nouri, Ernest Reyer, Frederic Remington, Karel Halíř, Nicolaas Pierson, and Miguel Antonio Caro. After him are Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, William Powell Frith, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Petre S. Aurelian, Robert Hausmann, and Lina Morgenstern.

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In Uzbekistan

Among people born in Uzbekistan, Furqat ranks 69 out of 190. Before him are Abdulhashim Mutalov (1947), Ravshan Irmatov (1977), Lev Avnerovich Leviev (1956), Sabir Yunusov (1909), Maksim Shatskikh (1978), and Salizhan Sharipov (1964). After him are Natalya Shikolenko (1964), Rustam Kazakov (1947), Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev (1930), El-Registan (1899), Enver İzmaylov (1955), and Galina Shamrai (1931).

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Among WRITERS In Uzbekistan

Among writers born in Uzbekistan, Furqat ranks 8. Before him are Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi (1889), Nodira (1792), Zulfiya (1915), Abdurauf Fitrat (1885), Gʻafur Gʻulom (1903), and Choʻlpon (1897). After him are El-Registan (1899), Dina Rubina (1953), and Khosiyat Rustam (1971).

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