Hamid Olimjon Biography | Poet

Hamid Olimjon (Russified form Hamid Alimjan ) (Uzbek : ; Hamid Olimjon, Russian) (12 December, 1909 - 3 July, 1944) was an Uzbek poet, playwright, and literary translator of the Soviet period. He was influenced by Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia considers his work full of "great artistic mastery". In addition to writing his own poetry, Hamid Olimjon translated the works of many famous foreign authors, such as Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Taras Shevchenko, and Mikhail Lermontov into the Uzbek language.