Shamshad Abdullaev

rdf:langString Shamshad Abdullaev

rdf:langString Shamshad Abdullaev

rdf:langString Shamshad Abdullaev

rdf:langString Russian

rdf:langString Шамшад Маджитович Абдуллаев

rdf:langString The Gap Slow Summer Three Poems

rdf:langString poet, essayist, author

rdf:langString This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Majitovich and the surname is Abdullaev. Shamshad Majitovich Abdullaev (Russian: Шамшад Маджитович Абдуллаев, born November 1, 1957) is an Uzbek poet, essayist, writer and translator. He is the founder of the Fergana School of Russian language poetry. Abdullaev was born in Fergana, then part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, and attended the local Fergana Pedagogical institute, graduating in 1979 with a degree in Russian literature. From 1991–1995, Abdullaev was also the final editor-in-chief of Tashkent-based poetry journal Star of the East (Zvezda Vostoka). His first poetry compilation book, titled The Gap, was published in Saint Petersburg, Russia by local magazine Mitin. The Gap received critical acclaim and won Abdullaev the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize in 1994. He is a contributor to Words Without Borders, where he has published several of his poems: "On the Death of Jean Vigo", "Midday 1975", and "Family", all originally written in Russian.