Biography of Fatih Husni

Fatih Husni (1908-1996) Prose Writer and Playwright

Fatih Husni, a member of the Union of Writers of the ТАSSR and the USSR, and winner of the National Writer of the RТ award (1993), began his life the same as many of his contemporaries. He was from the country village of Bolshoi Meteski (now the Sabinsky area in the RТ) who helped his parents on the farm in the summer and went to school in the winter. Fatih, in his early childhood, was fond of the poetry of Tukai, for whom he harbored admiration throughout his long life.

After the death of his mother, he moved to Kazan for high school at the experimental-practical high school, M. Vahitova. In 1927, in the magazine, “Beznen Yul,” he published the poem, “The World is Fine,” which brought him much fame.

Wide prospects opened up before the young man. The best known Tatar magazines readily accepted his poems. Inspired by his success, and still yet a fairly inexperienced poet, he began to try his hand at various genres. He wrote sketches, short stories, comic stories, and the play, “Malicious” (1929).

All of Husni’s creativity focuses its interest on rural subjects. He created images of simple people. Husni was an expert at national life and bringing national speech alive. Most of all, he is remembered for the vibrant psychological portraits of his characters. Heroes of his stories, “The Ring” (1942), “The Beginning of Summer” (1951), “Love Under Stars” (1955), and his novels, The Path of the Pedestrian (1959), and The Thirtieth Year (1963), were simple country men with pleasures and crises and hopes and dreams concerning normal human happiness. For his story, “Gilmenisa and Her Neighbors,” as well as a series of other stories, he received the state G. Tukai award, in 1972.

From 1970 to 1980, he wrote new novels and short stories, in which he brings up the questions of living a harmonious existence as a person. He delves into nature, humanism, happiness, the purpose of life, and debt to society.

Throughout Fatih Husni's entire life, he was an active participant in the public and cultural life of the republic and given many awards and medals.

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