Re-reading Bahmanyar, a prominent Tajik writer

Re-reading Bahmanyar, a prominent Tajik writer

A question often posed by non-Tajik readers and scholars is: Why read Bahmanyar? Some may even ask, who is Bahmanyar? Bahmanyar, a prominent Tajik writer, achieved significant recognition from the early 1980s to the late 2000s, marking the peak of his literary career. During the period of perestroika through the early 2000s, Bahmanyar’s name was synonymous with Tajik prose, frequently highlighted at literary events both within and beyond Tajikis…