I’m Nodira. 17 years old. And I love stories. My first ever book was written when I was 6 years old - six A4 sheets folded and sewn together, with illustrations and clear guidance on how to be the best cat owner.
I wrote poems in elementary school about my cats and grandmother, so my homeroom teacher in 2nd grade used to call me “Little Zulfiya”. Well, now I have been nominated to Zulfiya award.
Of course, it was not like I knew writing was my passion since the beginning. For a long time, I have been wandering around and trying myself in different areas: during high school I run my own online shop for 2 years, before that I was into knitting, drawing and also designing. I dropped those hobbies one after another (tho business is still attractive) while my classmates seemed to already know what exactly they wanted to do in their lives.
My Mom calls me “Sunny” since my very childhood. My Dad’s words that one should only force a little smile to feel better as it works both ways still define how I look at the world. Tomorrow is Sunny sounds to me like a promise that everything will be alright.
I always loved reading (Dad used to make challenges like a book for 3 days when I was in middle school) but it wasn’t until I started learning English that I got fully immersed in that world. I was lucky enough to have a great teacher who would recommend me a book a week and discuss them with me afterwards. I owe him a lot. And I also got IELTS 8.0 at the end.
October this year I finally published my first book - Behind the Geniuses of Literature: Stories of Women Whom You Probably Didn’t Know. It’s available on Amazon and I am planning to publish it here in Uzbekistan too. (We brought several copies to the American Corner Namangan and it feels amazing to touch one’s own book😂)
And yes. I write in English. Why? If I am to commit myself to writing, and writing about Uzbek life, then I want it to be on a much larger scale - I want people from around the world to know about my country and our values.
Hence the book, 101 Teenagers of Uzbekistan:)
I wrote poems in elementary school about my cats and grandmother, so my homeroom teacher in 2nd grade used to call me “Little Zulfiya”. Well, now I have been nominated to Zulfiya award.
Of course, it was not like I knew writing was my passion since the beginning. For a long time, I have been wandering around and trying myself in different areas: during high school I run my own online shop for 2 years, before that I was into knitting, drawing and also designing. I dropped those hobbies one after another (tho business is still attractive) while my classmates seemed to already know what exactly they wanted to do in their lives.
My Mom calls me “Sunny” since my very childhood. My Dad’s words that one should only force a little smile to feel better as it works both ways still define how I look at the world. Tomorrow is Sunny sounds to me like a promise that everything will be alright.
I always loved reading (Dad used to make challenges like a book for 3 days when I was in middle school) but it wasn’t until I started learning English that I got fully immersed in that world. I was lucky enough to have a great teacher who would recommend me a book a week and discuss them with me afterwards. I owe him a lot. And I also got IELTS 8.0 at the end.
October this year I finally published my first book - Behind the Geniuses of Literature: Stories of Women Whom You Probably Didn’t Know. It’s available on Amazon and I am planning to publish it here in Uzbekistan too. (We brought several copies to the American Corner Namangan and it feels amazing to touch one’s own book😂)
And yes. I write in English. Why? If I am to commit myself to writing, and writing about Uzbek life, then I want it to be on a much larger scale - I want people from around the world to know about my country and our values.
Hence the book, 101 Teenagers of Uzbekistan:)