Rakhim Karimov

Rakhim Karimov (Рахим Каримов (born 1960, Osh, Kyrgyzstan) is an Uzbek-Russian-Kyrgyz-language Soviet poet, writer, publicist, translator, and film screenwriter. The total circulation of his publications (including periodicals) is more than 6 million copies. Geography: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Russian Federation, Belarus, Great Britain, Ukraine, etc.

Biography
Uzbek by origin. He is a graduate of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (1986).

Worked for the newspapers “Voice of the Textile Worker”, “Akbuura”, “Evening Osh”, “Osh Almanac”, the regional department of culture, the information and analytical agency “AKIpress”, and the Central Asian news service CANews.

Official representative of the International Federation of Russian-Speaking Writers (IFRP) in Kyrgyzstan.

Several years ago he was publicly cursed in one of the mosques for an article about the unseemly acts of the organizers of pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina. At the beginning of 2005, he was fired from the regional department of culture. Subjected to beatings.

In 2022, Karimov's poems translated into English were included in “World Poetry Tree”.

Currently, he makes a living by collaborating with a popular online publications.

Awards and nominations
Laureate of the Republican Moldo Niyaz Literary Prize, Nominated for Toktogul State Award and Big Book Award. Silver medal of the Eurasian Literary Festival of Festivals “LiFFt” (2017).