Nortukhta Kilich

Nortukhta Kilich is an Uzbek writer, the author of short stories and novellas. He was born on 7 February 1946 in the village of Gishti in the Gijduvan district of the Bukhara region (some sources give 1947 as the year).

His first stories appeared in a district newspaper in the 1960s. In 1971 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Tashkent State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan). He later worked at the newspapers Buxoro haqiqati, Xorazm haqiqati and Toshkent oqshomi, at the magazine Sharq yulduzi and at the Ghafur Ghulam Publishing House of Literature and Art.

His first book, the story collection “Oppoq tong”, came out in 1981. “Yorongul” was published the same year, followed by “Mo’jiza” (1984), “Chig’iriq” (1988), “Bayram” (1991), “505” and “Iltijo” (both 1992). Besides short stories, these books include novellas.

A collection of novellas and stories, “Vijdon hukmi”, was published in the Karakalpak language in 1993. His stories are available to read in the online anthology of Uzbek prose on the Ziyouz library site.

He kept publishing in later years: a 416-page book, “Ikki olam aro”, appeared from the Sharq publishing house in 2018, and “Tantana” (a debate and a novella) from O’qituvchi in 2019.