Writing and awards
He was the winner of the Ivan Bunin Award for his work Zolotye Pismena Lyubvi (The Golden Letters of Love). The Nika Prize in 2001 was awarded to a romance to Zulfikarov's lyrics for the art-house melodrama Listen, Is It Raining? performed by singer Lina Mkrtchyan, and written by composer Isaac Schwartz. He has also worked as a writer for movies like Mirazhi Iyubvi (1987) and Tasfiya (2017). == Works ==
Works
Gyron and Nolon on the Shipyard of Water. • Poems of Wanderings (1980) • Two Legends of Love (1980) • Sages, Kings, Poets (1983) • Emirs, Sages, Poets (1983) • Tattabubu (1984) • The First Love of Khoja Nasreddin (1985) • The Hunt of King Bahram Gur the Sassanid (1986) • The Earthly and Heavenly Wanderings of a Poet (1990) • Love, Wisdom, and the Death of a Dervish (1990) • The Book of the Death of Amir Timur (1998) • The Scarlet Gypsy (1999) • The Azure Wanderer (Songs of Russia and Asia) (2002) • The Stone of the Apocalypse (2003) • Golden Parables of a Dervish (2004) • Golden Parables of Khoja Nasreddin (2004) • The Coral Viper (2005) • The Book of the Childhood of Jesus Christ (2006) • A Bitter Conversation Between Two Golden-Tongued Sages Amidst Wild Honey-Scented Herbs (2006) • The Wanderings of Khoja Nasreddin in the 21st Century: The New Teachings of an Ancient Sage (2021) ==References==