Majit Gafuri

ماجيت غفوري

20 July 1880 CE · 12 Sha'ban 1297 AH† – 28 October 1934 CE · 20 Rajab 1353 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Bashkir and Tatar poet and writer (1880–1934), a leader of the democratic trend in Tatar literature and a founder of national children's literature. Born at Zilim-Karanovo into a teacher's family and formed at the madrasas of Utyashevo, Troitsk, Kazan and Ufa, he became the leading voice of Tatar literature after Gabdulla Tukay's death in 1913, and was named People's Poet of Bashkortostan in 1923.