Oʻtkir Hoshimov

Oʻtkir Hoshimov[a] (5 August 1941 — 24 May 2013) was an Uzbek writer, playwright, journalist, and literary translator.

His most popular work is his 1985 novel Ikki eshik orasi, for which he received the State Hamza Prize.

Hoshimov also translated the works of foreign authors, including Ernest Hemingway and Konstantin Simonov, into Uzbek.

His collection of essays called Po‘lat chavandozlar was published in 1962,[4] followed by the story "Cho‘l havosi" a year later.

[1] In 1993, another of his popular novels, Tushda kechgan umrlar, was serialized in the Sharq Yulduzi magazine.