DUSHANBE, August 18, 2016, Asia-Plus – Tajik President Emomali Rahmon yesterday congratulated internationally known writer and poet Timour Zulfiqorov on his 80th jubilee.

According to the Tajik president’s official website, Rahmon talked to the famous poet and writer, who is currently living in Zimchuroud, Varzob district, over phone.

Rahmon reportedly expressed gratitude to Timour Zulfiqorov for his contribution to development of prose and poetry as well as modern dramatic art of Tajikistan.

Born on August 17, 1936, Timour Zulfiqorov is internationally known Russian/Tajik poet, playwright, and novelist.  He was born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Russia’s publishing house, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura , in 2010 nominated the novel by Timour Zulfiqorov “Stoyashchiy i Rydayushchiy sredi Begushchikh Vod” (Standing and Sobbing in the Rushing Waters) for a Nobel Prize in Literature.

Written in 1993, “Stoyashchiy i Rydayushchiy sredi Begushchikh Vod” is a novel about love during civil war.