Tahir Hamut Izgil Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

Tahir Hamut Izgil Biography

Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the foremost poets writing in the Uyghur language. He grew up in Kashgar, an ancient city in the southwest of the Uyghur homeland. After attending college in Beijing, he returned to the Uyghur region and emerged as a prominent film director. His poetry has appeared, in Joshua L. Freeman's English translation, in The New York Review of Books, Asymptote, Gulf Coast, and Berkeley Poetry Review, and have also been extensively translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Turkish. In 2017, as the Chinese state began the mass internment of the Uyghur people, Izgil fled with his family to the United States. He lives near Washington, D.C.

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