Biography
Muhabbat Ozatovna Sharafutdinova was born in 1951 in Tashkent into the family of an office employee. She chose philology and studied it at Tashkent State University, now the National University of Uzbekistan.
She became a candidate of sciences and an associate professor. In her last years she headed the department of journalism and literary studies in the faculty of international journalism at the Uzbek State University of World Languages, where she taught literary studies.
Her scholarly interests were Uzbek and Russian prose of the twentieth century, above all in comparison with the world literary tradition. She wrote about Cho’lpon’s novel “Night and Day”, about Nabokov, about Chingiz Aitmatov and Uzbek literature, about the narrative structure in the work of Ulugbek Hoshimov and William Faulkner, and about the philosophical and aesthetic views of the critic Ozod Sharafiddinov.
Her first articles appeared in 1977 in the magazines “Sharq yulduzi” and “Zvezda Vostoka” and in “Mehnat va turmush”; a booklet, “The Hero and the Worker”, followed in 1978. In 1988–1992 her work was printed in the proceedings of a republican conference and in collections of the Nizami Tashkent State Pedagogical Institute, and in 2006 in the proceedings of a conference on the language and style of mass media. Her last research project was “Uzbek Literature of the Twentieth Century in the Context of the World Literary Tradition”.
She died on 3 March 2013.
Education
- National University of UzbekistanUniversity · Tashkent · Philologist
Career
- Uzbek State University of World LanguagesAssociate professor, head of the department of journalism and literary studies · Tashkent
Life path
- 1951Birth
Born in Tashkent into the family of an office employee.
- 1977First articles
Her articles on contemporary literature appeared in the magazines “Sharq yulduzi” and “Zvezda Vostoka” and in “Mehnat va turmush”.
- 1978Booklet “The Hero and the Worker”
Published by the Uzbekistan publishing house.
- 1988Republican scholarly conference
A paper on teaching contemporary Soviet literature was printed in the proceedings of a conference of the Ghafur Ghulam Syr Darya Pedagogical Institute.
- 1990–1992Articles on the hero of 1970s–1980s literature
Publications in collections of the Nizami Tashkent State Pedagogical Institute, including an article on imagery and symbolism in Solzhenitsyn’s “Cancer Ward”.
- 2006Conference on the language and style of mass media
Presented a paper in Tashkent (4–5 May) on monologue and dialogue in the works of U. Hoshimov.
- 2013Death
Died on 3 March; her last research concerned twentieth-century Uzbek literature in the context of the world tradition.
Works
- “The Hero and the Worker” (1978)Booklet
A booklet published by the Uzbekistan publishing house.
- “Understanding Nabokov”Literary criticism
A study of Vladimir Nabokov’s prose.
- “Cho’lpon’s Novel ‘Night and Day’ in the Light of the World Artistic Tradition”Literary criticism
An analysis of Abdulhamid Cho’lpon’s novel set against world literature.
- “Features of the Narrative Structure in the Works of U. Hoshimov and W. Faulkner”Literary criticism
A comparison of narration in Ulugbek Hoshimov and William Faulkner.
- “Chingiz Aitmatov and Uzbek Literature”Article
On the links between Aitmatov’s work and Uzbek literature; printed in the journal “Filologicheskie nauki”.
- “The Philosophical and Aesthetic Views of Ozod Sharafiddinov”Literary criticism
On the views of the Uzbek literary scholar Ozod Sharafiddinov.
- “Imagery and Symbolism in Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Cancer Ward’” (1992)Article
Printed in the collection “Tradition and Innovation in Russian Literature” of the Nizami Tashkent Pedagogical Institute.
- “The Multifunctionality of Monologue and the Monologic Nature of Dialogue in U. Hoshimov’s ‘Between Two Doors’ and ‘Life in Dreams’” (2006)Conference paper
Published in the proceedings of a Tashkent conference on the language and style of mass media.