Tahir Nureddinoğlu Kerim is a specialist in Crimean Tatar literature, Candidate of Philological Sciences (PhD), an independent researcher and a member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine and the Union of Crimean Tatar Writers.
From 2001 to 2022 he worked at the Fevzi Yakubov Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University as senior lecturer at the Department of Crimean Tatar Literature and Journalism; deputy director of the “Manuscript Books” Research Centre; chief specialist of the Research Institute of Crimean Tatar Philology, History and Culture; and deputy editor-in-chief of the scholarly journals “Scientific Bulletin” and “Problems of Crimean Tatar Philology, History and Culture”.
In 2009 he defended his doctoral thesis “The Works of Cemil Kermençikli: Thematic, Semantic, Linguistic and Stylistic Features”.
T.N. Kerim is a researcher with broad scholarly interests. His work focuses mainly on Crimean Tatar literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He has published numerous articles and monographs; his in-depth studies make an important contribution to understanding the development of Crimean Tatar culture and literature.
