Hamid Olimjon

Hamid Olimjon was an Uzbek poet, playwright, scholar, and literary translator of the Soviet period. Hamid Olimjon is regarded as one of the finest 20th‑century Uzbek poets. The Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia describes him as "one of the founders of Uzbek Soviet literature". In addition to writing his own poetry, Hamid Olimjon translated the works of many celebrated foreign authors – including Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Taras Shevchenko, and Mikhail Lermontov – into the Uzbek language.