Abdugafur Rasulov

Abdugafur Rasulov was born on 1 July 1937 in Tashkent. He studied at Tashkent State University (now the Mirzo Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan) and spent his academic life there, working in literary criticism and literary studies.

He received the academic title of docent in 1970. In 1970–1971 he chaired the trade union organization of students and postgraduates of Tashkent State University. In 1979 he was admitted to the Writers’ Union of Uzbekistan.

From 1996 to 1998 he was dean of the Faculty of Uzbek Philology at the National University of Uzbekistan. In 2002 he defended a doctoral dissertation on the problem of interpretation and analysis in contemporary Uzbek criticism and became a Doctor of Philology; in 2004 he was made a professor and from that year worked as professor in the faculty’s Department of World Literature and Theory.

Rasulov’s research concerned literary criticism, its theory and the interpretation of literary works. His book “Horizons of Criticism” appeared in 1985, followed by the booklet “Ilmi g‘aribani qo‘msab” (1998) and the monograph “Criticism, Interpretation, Evaluation” (2006). He wrote literary portraits, among them of Ozod Sharafiddinov, and edited books by other authors. According to available accounts, he wrote more than 250 articles.

In 2003 he received the title Honoured Youth Mentor of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and in 2007 that of Honoured Science Worker of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Abdugafur Rasulov died in Tashkent on 17 September 2014, aged 77.