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Akhunov Garif
An outstanding writer and public figure Garif Akhunov (Garifzian Akhunzianovich Akhunov) was born on September 18, 1925 in the village of Uchili of Arsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan. He finished a seven-year school in the village Kazanbash, and then continued his education at the Arsk Pedagogical school.
In 1947-1952 G. Akhunov was a student of the department of the Tatar language and literature at the Kazan University. Those were the years when he started his creative activity.
In 1956 Garif Akhunov moved to the young city of oil industry workers - Almetiyevsk where appeared in press with his assays, short stories, small novels. Here he wrote the novel about oil industry workers' life 'Treasure' (1963).
In 1968 G. Akhunov returned to Kazan and in 1970-1974 worked as an editor-in-chief on 'Kazan Utlary'. In 1974 he was elected the chairman of the board of directors of Writers' Union of Tatarstan. During 1970s the writer created the stories 'A kernel of a nut'(1974), 'Arduan Batyr' (1975), 'We are from Arsk' (1978), 'The stars are coming out' (1979) and others, also two books of the trilogy 'The daughter of the Volga' were published there.
G. Akhunov's literature and creative activity is many-sided: he wrote in different genres. He is a famous prose writer, a journalist, a publicist, a literature critic, a translator, an author of drama works.
The writer's literature activity was highly estimated. The story 'A kernel of a nut' and the novel 'Treasure' won the G. Tukai's Government Prize of the Tatarstan, and in 1993 the writer was given the honourary title of People's writer of the Tatarstan, in 1995 he won the Gayaz Iskhaki's Prize for the novel 'The daughter of the Volga' and journalist's articles of the last years. |
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