Temur Iskhakovich Pulatov is a well-known Uzbek and Russian prose writer. People's Writer of Uzbekistan, Laureate of the State Prize of Uzbekistan. People's Writer of Tajikistan. Laureate of Vaja Psheval (Georgia), Sayot-Nova (Armenia) Literary Awards. Laureate of the International Prize named after MA Sholokhov. He was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples in 1996 by the decree of the President of Russia BN Yeltsin. In 1998, the head of the Monarch's House, Prince A. Bugayev, conferred the title of count on Timur Pulatov.
He was born in 1939 in Bukhara. He graduated from the Bukhara Pedagogical Institute (1963), the Higher Scriptwriting and Directing Course in Moscow (1967). He worked as an editor at the Uzbekfilm film studio. Author of a number of screenplays for feature films (based on the story "The Return of the Commander" by T. Pulatov, 1968, directed by D. Salimov, "This handsome young man", 1972, directed by E. Khachaturov, "G ' The Last Journeys of Shame ”, based on the story of the same name by T. Pulatov, 1991, directed by F. Davletshin and others).
In 1968, Timur Pulatov became a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR. In 1991 he was elected First Secretary of the Writers' Union of the USSR. After the USSR Writers' Union was transformed into the Society of International Writers' Unions of Russia and the CIS in 1992, Timur Pulatov headed the largest writers' union in the former USSR as the first secretary of the Executive Committee. Since 1994, Timur Pulatov has been leading the team of the International Writers' Union for 6 years. During this time, with the collapse of the USSR, the creative organization of writers, which had almost disappeared, was restored. Creative ties will be established between the Writers' Union of Russia and the CIS. For the first time in many years, the works of national writers of the CIS countries will be published in Russian in the amount of about 200 poems and prose.
National awards of Boris Pasternak, A. Platonov, A. Navoi, U. Khayyam, S. Vurgun and others were introduced for the most famous works of Russian and CIS writers. The Lotus International Literary Prize has been established for writers from the CIS, Asia and Africa. Since 1998, the newspaper "Literary Eurasia" has been published in Russian, which helps readers to get acquainted with the works of writers from the Commonwealth of Independent States, to establish literary ties, to find young and talented writers on their pages. International literary ties, suspended in the early 1990s, have been re-established with many countries - Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, China, and the Middle East.
In 2000, Timur Pulatov resigned as chairman of the International Writers' Union. After that, the writer returns to the literary creation he has wanted for many years. He is currently working on a novel about modernity.
Timur Pulatov has lived in Moscow since 1991. Married. They have children and grandchildren.
Timur Pulatov's first short story, Walking along the Road, was published in 1964. His other works are also widely known, including:
• “Partial Addresses”
• The Second Journey of the Missing
• “Everyday”
• The Watchtower
• Trilogy "The history of the Bukhara dynasty"
His most famous and respected novel, The Tortoise of Libra, is about the life and remarkable adventures of a medieval Bukhara scientist who dared to embark on a great experiment that demonstrated the courage and high intelligence of the human psyche.
"Floating Eurasia" is a wonderful combination of fiction and reality, myth and satire, history and modernity. The events of the novel take place in a large medieval city, in the days of tragedy, waiting for the next earthquake.
A number of Timur Pulatov's works have not seen the face of the author's homeland, Uzbekistan, due to banned texts. In Russia, the works were published several years after they were written.
Timur Pulatov's novels, short stories and short stories have been translated into Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Hindi, English and other languages. Published in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, Germany, Sweden, Finland and other countries. His pamphlets have been published in the United States, Italy, and Germany, and his dissertations based on Timur Pulatov's works have been defended.
In 1996, the Modern Writer published three volumes of Timur Pulatov's best works. In 1999, the same publishing house published the fourth volume, which included Timur Pulatov's journalistic articles, opinions of writers and literary critics from Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, the Chechen Republic, Azerbaijan, as well as foreign media. published. In particular, the German researcher B. Fuchs's “T. Man, Society and Religion in Pulatov's Works. One of the most famous examples of Timur Pulatov's work is EF Shafransky's 2005 novel Timur Pulatov's Prose.
