Khusni

Khusni 

(Fatykh Khusnutdinovich Khusnutdinov). Born Jan. 21 (Feb. 3), 1908, in the village of Bol’shie Meteski, in what is now Saby Raion, Tatar ASSR. Soviet Tatar writer.

Khusni graduated from the Institute of Finance and Economy in Kazan in 1933. He published his first works in 1927. Khusni writes mainly about the present and past of the Tatar village. His chief works are the novels The Land Listens (part 1, 1931), A Pedestrian’s Path (1959; Russian translation, 1960), and The Year 1930 (1963; Russian translation, 1965) and the novellas The Ring (1945; Russian translation, 1964), Love Under the Stars (1954; Russian translation, 1956), Gil’menisa (1969), Gli’menisa and Her Neighbors (1971), and Maidan (1971).

Khusni depicts original characters drawn from among the people. He is an expert on the life and language of the Tatars. Khusni has also written the plays In the Forest (staged 1938), Years and Fates (staged 1956), and The Tagirov Brothers (staged 1965).

Khusni has been awarded two orders and several medals.

WORKS

Saylanma äsärlär, vols. 1–3. Kazan, 1966–68.
In Russian translation:
Novelly. Kazan, 1947.
Pervaia molniia: Povest’ i rasskazy. Kazan, 1954.
Pod zvezdami. Moscow, 1972.

REFERENCES

Istoriia tatarskoi sovetskoi literatury. Moscow, 1965.
Sverigin, R. Fatïkh Khösni. Kazan, 1968.
Giniiatullina, A. Pisateli Sovetskogo Tatarstana: Biobibliograficheskii spravochnik. Kazan, 1970.

R. MUSTAFIN