UYGHUR WRITER PARHAT TURSUN AND HIS WORKS

Parhat Tursun was born in a school teacher family in Artush on January 1, 1969 and grew up in small town there. After he finished high school in 1984, attended the former central institute of nationalities in Peking, where he studied Turkology and literature. While at the institute he organized an enlightenment group of Uyghur students and a small group of writers and began to edit a students periodical gazette known as Sparkle. After his graduation in 1989, he worked at The Massess Art Centre of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as an academic researcher of folklore. From 1991 till 1993, he organized literary salons in Urumchi. In 2005, he entered the central university for nationalities in Peking, specialize in classical Uyghur culture and ancient documents in Uyghur language. After receiving master degree by Chagatai language in June 2008, subsequently he won a fellowship to continue toward the PhD in that university.
He published his first poem at the age of eleven when he was a middle school student. And at the age of twenty, he attracted public attention by his first novella, Collapse. He studied lots of ancient Buddhism and Manichean scripture in old Uyghur language at the period he was a college student, in addition to became familiar with modern western literature also learned psychology and philosophy, particularly psychoanalysis and ancient Greek philosophy. He began to work on his first novel Art Of Suicide in 1987 and finished in 1996. After the publication of his novella Desolation Of Messiah in 1992, he became recognized as the most talented of his generation of Uyghur literature, indeed as the voice of a new generation. His first book, One Hundred Poems Of Love, published by Xinjang people’s press In 1998, and collection of novella Desolation Of Messiah published by nationalities press of Peking in 1998, novel Art Of Suicide published by Xinjang people’s press in 1999. Four screenplays has been made into films, The Star Fall From The Sky ( 2000), Collapse (2001), Beautiful Patima (2001), Dark Mountain (2001). After his works for some years, since 2006 he began to publish his articles and short stories at local magazines, such as Fiction And Metaphysical Reality ( Tarim Monthly 2006), Perfectness And Deficiency ( Tarim Monthly 2007), Knock On a Door ( Tarim Monthly 2007) Angry Man Tudek Shatur ( Tarim Monthly 2007), novella The Star Fall From The Sky ( Aqsu literature 2009), long poem Vanish Away ( Qizilsu literature quarterly, 2009). He also translate poems of Uyghur classic poets, such as Alshir Nawayi, Baba Rehim Mashrab, Hoja Jahan Arshi, into Chinese (selected into unified textbook College Literature, Published by Jejiang people’s press). His Chinese poem Kafka In The Desert selected into an anthology named The Earth To The West (Published by Xinjiang people’s press), his Chinese articles Narrative Strategy In The Hamidian History, Research on Old Uyghur Words In The Modern Uyghur Spoken Language both issued in the Uyghur online.
Parhat tursun lives in Urumchi with his wife Hajigul Mutellip and son Uweys Tursun.

Selected Bibliography
WORKS BY PARHAT TURSUN

NOVELS
Art Of Suicide. Peking and Urumchi: 1987- 1996, Urumchi: Xinjang people’s press, 1999;
Big City. Urumchi and Peking: 1990 – 2006, Website, Uighuronline, 2008;

NOVELLAS
Collapse. Peking: 1987, Urumchi: Tarim monthly, January 1989; selected into anthology Happy Night. Peking Nationalities Press 1991, and another anthology An Incident Related To Mustache. Qashqar Uyghur Press 1992.
Icing Window. Turpan: 1988, Urumchi: Tarim monthly, 1990. selected into anthology Mysterious Beggar. Peking Nationalities Press 1993;
Collapse ( translate into Chinese by Su Yongcheng). Urumchi: Writers of Nationalities monthly, may. 1989;
Desolation Of Messiah. Urumchi: 1989, Urumchi: Tangritagh bimonthly, 1992;
Sickness. Urumchi: 1992, Urumchi: Tangritagh bimonthly, 1997;
Chinar. Urumchi: 1997, Urumchi: Tangritagh bimonthly, 1998;
The Star Fall From The Sky. Urumchi: 1999, Aqsu: Aqsu bimonthly, 2009.

PLAYS AND SCREENPLAYS
The Testimony Of Love. Xinjang Culture bimonthly ( 1985);
The Star Fall From The Sky. Urumchi: 1999, Urumchi: Xinjang audiovisual publishing house, 2000;
Collapse. Urumchi: 2001, Urumchi: Nationalities audiovisual publishing house, 2001;
Beautiful Patima. Urumchi: 1999, Urumchi: Xinjang audiovisual publishing house, 2001;
Dark Mountain. Urumchi: 1999, Urumchi: Xinjang audiovisual publishing house, 2001;
Knock On A Door. Peking: 2007, Uighuronline, 2007.

SHORT STORIES
How To Manage To Publish Your Writings. Peking: 1984, Korla: Bostan Quarterly 15 (1990);
Beed Sheet. Urumchi: 1990, Urumchi: Tangritagh bimonthly, 1991;
Realistic Crowd. Urumchi:1991, Urumchi: Workers Times, 1992;
Omen. Urumchi:1991, Urumchi: Workers Times, 1994;
Emptiness. Urumchi:1991, Urumchi: Workers Times, 1995;
Knock On A Door. Peking: 2007, Urumchi: Tarim monthly, 2007;
Sweet Memory. Urumchi: 2001, Urumchi: Tarim monthly, may 2009;
Oleaster Tree. Urumchi: 2002, Urumchi: Tarim monthly, january 2008;
White And Black. Urumchi: 2002, Urumchi: Tarim monthly, 2007;
Angry Man Tudek Shatur. Urumchi: 2006, Urumchi: Tarim monthly, january 2009;
Famous Person. Urumchi: 2006, Urumchi: Tarim monthly, march 2009;
Young Poet. Urumchi: 2006, Urumchi: Tarim monthly, march 2009;
Trailer. Urumchi: 1994, Atush: Qizilsu literature quarterly, 2007;
Home Education Of Abdusemet Mamut. Peking: 2007, Atush: Qizilsu literature quarterly, winter 2008;
Robber. Peking: 2006, Khotan: New jade Bimonthly, 2008;
Five Minutes. Peking: 2005, Urumchi: Tangritagh Bimonthly, 2007;
A Little Boy Believe In Fairytales. Urumchi:1990, Urumchi: Workers Times, 2009;
When The Last Bus Start Off? Peking:2008, Urumchi: Workers Times, 2009;

POEMS
One Hundred Poems of Love. Atush, Peking, Urumchi: 1980 – 1994, Urumchi: Xinjang people’s press, 1998;
11 poems. Atush, Peking, Turpan 1984 – 1988, Turpan: Turpan bimonthly, 1988;
Poems. Atush, Peking, 1984 – 1988, Urumchi: Tarim monthly, 1988;
Kafka On The Desert. Urumchi: 2003, selected into an anthology in Chinese The Earth To The West, Urumchi: Xinjiang people’s press, 2006;
Poems. selected into an anthology in Chinese The Flying Stone, Urumchi: Xinjiang people’s press, 2001;
Poems. Urumchi, Peking, 2000 – 2006, Ili: Ili River bimonthly, 2008;
Poems. Atush, Peking, 1984 – 1988, Urumchi: Tangritagh bimonthly, 1991;
Vanish Away (long poem). Makit Qashqar: 1991, Qizilsu literature quarterly, spring 2009.

ARTICLES
An Introduction To The New Wave Movement In The Cinematics. Urumchi; 1991, Urumchi: Tangritagh Cinema 1991;
An Introduction To Psychoanalysis. Urumchi: 1999, Urumchi: Xinjang Art bimonthly, 2000;
Sexuality And Culture. Urumchi: 1999, Peking: China Nationalities monthly, 2007;
Fiction And Metaphysical Reality. Urumchi: 2004, Urumchi: Tarim Monthly, 2006;
Perfectness And Deficiency. Urumchi: 2003, Urumchi: Tarim Monthly, may 2007;
New Kind Of Symbol. Urumchi:1991, Urumchi: Workers Times, 1992;
Vanish Of The Man. Urumchi:1991, Urumchi: Workers Times, 1992;
Tragic Aesthetics. Urumchi:1991, Urumchi: Workers Times, 1992;
Complicit Between Sivilization And Darkness. Urumchi: 2000 – 2005, Diyarim website, may 2006;
Research On Old Uyghur Words In The Modern Uyghur Spoken Language. Peking: 2006, Uighuronline. 2008.
Narrative Strategy In The Hamidian History, Peking: 2006, Uighuronline. 2008.

ESSAYS
Reminisce About My Grandmother. Urumchi: 2004, Urumchi: Tarim Monthly 2006;
Deaf Person. Pekingi:2007, Urumchi: Workers Times, 2008;
Notes On The Novella Sickness. Urumchi: Urumchi: 1992, Urumchi: Tangritagh bimonthly, 1997;
To The Emptiness. Urumchi:1991, Urumchi: Workers Times, 1992;
Is There No Beauty In The World. 1991, Qizilsu literature quarterly, 1991.

SELECTED INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES
Mamatsalih Matrozi, A Donkey In The Rain: An Interview. Ürumchi, 1991, Qizilsu literature quarterly, 1998;
Mamat Aysa, Art Of Suicide And Art Of Fiction: An Interview. Ürumchi, Tarim Monthly, may 2001.

TRANSISLATION WORKS
Flower, Telephone and a Girl. By Calos Drummond de Andrade, Ürumchi: World Literature, 1993;
Selected Poems by Charles Baudelaire. Urumchi: Workers Times, 1996;
Selected Poems by Western poets. Urumchi: Economic Weekly, 1998;
Poems By American poets. Turpan: Turpan bimonthly, 1998;
Poems by Pushkin. Aqsu: Aqsu bimonthly, 2009,
Poems by Harold Pinter. Peking: Echo, 2006.

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