Sabit Madaliev

Sabit Madaliev is the author of 14 books of poetry and fiction published in the former USSR and his native Uzbekistan. His most recent collections employ the Sufi verse form of rubaiyat, which has Persian, Turkish, and Arabic roots. This is his first full-length prose work. He lives in Tashkent. Russell Scott Valentino has published four books of literary translations: "Materdada," "Persuasion and Rhetoric," "Between Exile and Asylum: An Eastern Epistolary," and "A Castle in" "Romagna" as well...See more

Sabit Madaliev is the author of 14 books of poetry and fiction published in the former USSR and his native Uzbekistan. His most recent collections employ the Sufi verse form of rubaiyat, which has Persian, Turkish, and Arabic roots. This is his first full-length prose work. He lives in Tashkent. Russell Scott Valentino has published four books of literary translations: "Materdada," "Persuasion and Rhetoric," "Between Exile and Asylum: An Eastern Epistolary," and "A Castle in" "Romagna" as well as translated fiction in journals such as "The Iowa Review," "Poroi," "Two" "Lines," and "91st Meridian." A recipient of two Fulbright research awards to Croatia, he currently teaches in the master of fine arts in translation program at the University of Iowa. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa. See less