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Ahmatjan Osman
Poet · Writers · Born 1964 · age 62
Ahmatjan Osman, also spelled Ekhmetjan, Exmetjan or Ahmetcan, is a Uyghur poet and Uyghur independence activist who writes in both Uyghur and Arabic. A leader of the Uyghur New Poetry (gungga) movement in the 1980s, he is considered one of the "foremost Uyghur poets of his generation".
Ahmatjan Osman is read about 6.5 times a day, in 5 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 22 August 2026
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His use of free verse was influential in subsequent Uyghur poetics. His poetry has been described as trying to "capture the sacred and philosophical, the ineffable and the transient, in a wholly unique lyric voice".
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Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1964 · age 62
