Payrav Sulaymoni

The grave of the famous Tajik and Soviet poet, prose writer, writer and translator Peyrav Suleymani in Samarkand (Uzbekistan), at the Khazret Khyzr Cemetery.

Payrav Sulaymoni (Tajik: Пайрав Сулаймонӣ) (1899 – 1933), also transliterated as Pairaw Sulaimani, was a Tajik writer and poet from Samarkand. A reformer of traditional Tajik poetic metrics.

He is a father of Gulchihra Sulaymonova.

References

• Iraj Bashiri, Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century, International Borbad Foundation, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 2003.

See also

• Tajik literature