Ravil Faizullin
Russian writer
Ravil Gabdrahmanovich Faizullin (Russian: Рави́л Габдрахма́нович Файзу́ллин, Tatar: Равил Габдрахман улы Фәйзуллин; born August 4, 1943) is a Tatar writer, editor, poet and publicist. People's Poet of Tatarstan (1999), Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the Gabdulla Tukay Republican Prize (1978), and the Musa Cälil Tatar Komsomol Prize (1970).
Biography
R. A. Fayzullin was born on August 4, 1943 in the village of Yulsubino, Rybno-Slobodsky District, Tatar ASSR. He is a Tatar by nationality.
He graduated from the philological faculty of Kazan Federal University (1965), and completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Language, Literature and Art named after G. Ibragimov, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Having entered literature early (in the 1960s he was the youngest member of the Writers' Union of the USSR in the country), R. A. Fayzullin made a significant contribution to the development of multinational poetry over 45 years of active creative work.
Since the 1960s, R. A. Fayzullin's work has always been in the center of attention of the literary community; hundreds of articles and studies have been published about him in the central and republican press. He has published more than fifty books in Russian, Tatar, Bashkir and other languages, with a total circulation of about a million copies.
Since 1965, member of the Writers' Union of the USSR.
In 1968–1972 – head of the Almetyevsk branch of the Writers' Union of the Tatar ASSR.
In 1972–1976 – deputy chairman of the Writers' Union of the Tatar ASSR.
In 1976–1989 – professional writer.
Since 1989 – editor–in-chief of the magazine "Kazan utlary".
1990–1995 people's deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan.
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