Abdurehim Ötkür, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Abdurehim Ötkür

author

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1923

Place of Birth: Yizhou District, Xinjiang, China

Date of Death: 05-Oct-1995

Profession: poet

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Abdurehim Ötkür (Uyghur: ?????????? ??????, May 1923 – October 1995) was a popular Uyghur author and poet. Ötkür was born in Kumul, Xinjiang.
He graduated from Xinjiang University in 1942.
He then worked as the editor of the newspaper Altay Geziti till 1949.
From 1949 till 1980 he worked as an interpreter in various governmental offices—as he knew Uyghur, Chinese, Russian and English all well. From 1980 to his death Ötkür worked as a scholar in the Institute of Literature Studies of the Academy of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Xinjiang.
In 1988 was appointed as a Vice Chairman of the Society of Kutadgu Bilig Studies. On March 20, 2019, Harvard president Lawrence Bacow's speech which included Abdurehim's poet at Peking University espoused the values of free speech and academic freedom at one of China’s top universities, even reading out a verse written by a poet from the country’s long-suppressed Uyghur community.