Memtimin Hoshur
Writer and journalist Memtimin Hoshur was born in at Ghulja City in 1944. He studied at Murad School in Ghulaj City from 1951 to 1956 and at Ghulja City 3rd Middle School from 1956 to 1962. In 1962, Memtimin admitted the Faculty of Languages and Literature of Xinjiang University. After graduating in 1967, he worked in government administrative agencies for a while. During the cultural revolution he got persecuted and underwent “re-education”, returned to work at the end of 1979. He had been in charge of the Ili River, a literature magazine since 1979, and he was the vice president of the Writers’ Association of Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture. In 2000s, he was elected as the vice-chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Literature and Artists Association and the chairman of the Autonomous Region Writers’ Association.
Mamtimin Hushur was really successful with his first fiction “Apple”, it got published in 1965 which made his name popular among the Uyghur readers. Since then, especially since the end of the 70s, he has entered the field of prose with a new sarcastic narrations.
In 1980s, Memtimin Hoshur started to get attention with his black humors. A number of fictions such as Passengers in the Shell”, “Ayxan (ئايخان)” (in Kazakh) – Aikhan, Crazy, The Mustache Dispute, Edged Cup, and Golden Tooth Dog, Festival for the Pigs.
Memtimin Hoshur wrote some biographic novels such as “Nuzugum (نۇزۇگۇم)” (in Mongolian) – “Nuzugum”, “Friends”, “Hello, Brother Hesam“, “The Years Passed by“. His novel Blessed Snow, which received strong attentions and good reviews in the literary field and among booklovers.
Memtimin Hoshur had also published academic books such as “A Brief History of Ili Uyghur Drama”, “Strange Life, Strange Logic”. And he also published some non-fiction assays like “Our fiction in this year”, and “It’s Not Easy to Be a Scholar”. Memtimin Hoshur translated some novels into Uyghur, such as “Ih, 15-year-old Khalida”.
Mamtimin Hoshur’s published works are:
- “Ney Awazi – 笛声 – (نەي ئاۋازى)” – “The sound of the Flute” (1982, Xinjiang People’s Publishing House – 新疆人民出版社)
- “Ot Ketken Derya – 燃烧的河流 – (ئوت كەتكەن دەريا)” – “The Burning River” (2001, Xinjiang People’s Publishing House – 新疆人民出版社)
- “Kona – yéngi Ishlar – 新旧轶事 – (كونا – يېڭى ئىشلار)” – “Old Things are new” (1986, National Publishing House – 民族出版社（北京）)
- “Salam, Hésam Aka (سالام، ھېسام ئاكا)” – “Hello, Brother Hesam” (1990, Xinjiang Youth Publishing House – 新疆青少年出版社)
- “Ölükke Xet (ئۆلۈككە خەت)” – “Letter to the Dead” (1993, Kashgar Uyghur Publishing House – 喀什噶尔维吾尔出版社)
- “Qum Basqan Sheher – 被沙漠淹没了的古城 – (قۇم باسقان شەھەر)” – “The City buried under the desert” (1996, Xinjiang Youth Publishing House – 新疆青少年出版社)
- “Tolun Ay – 十五的月亮 – (تولۇن ئاي)” – “Full Moon” (2009, Xinjiang Youth Publishing House – 新疆青少年出版社)
- “Gülligen Dala – 野花盛开的原野 – (گۈللىگەن دالا)” – “Blossomed Wild” (2010, Xinjiang Youth Publishing House – 新疆青少年出版社)
- “On Ikki Muqamning Ili Wariyanti (ئون ئىككى مۇقامنىڭ ئىلى ۋارىيانتى)” – “Ili variant of Twelve Muqams” – (Xinjiang People’s Publishing House – 新疆人民出版社)
- “Bu Chüsh Emes (بۇ چۈش ئەمەس)” – “This is not a dream” – (Xinjiang People’s Publishing House – 新疆人民出版社)
- “Nuzugum (نۇزۇگۇم)” (in Mongolian) – (Xinjiang People’s Publishing House – 新疆人民出版社)
- “Yillar Shundaq Ötken – 岁月是那样过去的 – (يىللار شۇنداق ئۆتكەن)” – “The Years Passed by” (1988, Xinjiang People’s Publishing House – 新疆人民出版社)
Memtimin Hoshur was a candidate senior editor, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, and a member of the Chinese Minority Writers Academic Association.
Memtimin Hoshur got detained in the camp in 2018, released in 2019. His current situation is unknown.
Some of his books on the internet:
