Şakir Selim (sometimes also ''Shakir Selim''; 10 April 1942 – 18 November 2008) was a Crimean Tatar poet, publicist, translator.

Life

Şakir Selim was born in the village of Biyuk-Ass of the

Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Several different governments controlled the Crimean Peninsula during the period of the Soviet Union, from the 1920s to 1991. The government of Crimea from 1921 to 1936 was the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, which was an Autonomo ...

. Şakir, the 8th child of the family, was deported together with his family first to the

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and then to

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on May 18, 1944. When he was seven, he lost his mother. He finished his high school in 1958 in

Samarkand Samarkand ( ; Uzbek language, Uzbek and Tajik language, Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand, ) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central As ...

. In 1974, Selim graduated from the Philological Faculty of Samarkand University. Şakir Selim sent his poem "Mother", written during his military service, to the ''L Lenin Bayrağı'' newspaper, which was the only press body of the Crimean Tatar language at that time in the Soviet Union. This poem dedicated to his mother was published in 1963. His poetry activity began with that. After his military service, Şakir Selim entered to the Russian Language and Literature Faculty at Samargand State University. The latest poetry book of Şakir Salim was the "Kırımname", presented to readers in 2006. He died on 18 November 2008, in

Simferopol Simferopol ( ), also known as Aqmescit, is the second-largest city on the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, but controlled by Russia. It is considered the cap ...

References

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