Career
Qodiriy was one of the most influential Uzbek writers of the 20th century. He introduced realism into Uzbek literature through his historical novels and influenced many other Central Asian novelists, including the Kazakh writer Mukhtar Auezov. Qodiriy wrote under various pen names, the most renowned being Julqunboy.
Qodiriy was executed during the Great Purge under the leadership of Joseph Stalin.
Abdulla Qodiriy was born on April 10, 1894, in Tashkent, then Russian Turkestan. His father, Qodirbobo, was 74 years old when Qodiriy was born.
Qodiriy did a variety of menial jobs before a merchant hired him as a book copier. He became interested in writing in the middle of the 1910s.
Qodiriy was briefly arrested in 1926 for his article "Yigʻindi gaplar" ("A Collection of Rumors") that was published in Mushtum.
He was arrested again on December 31, 1937, as "enemy of the people". He was executed on October 4, 1938, in Tashkent.