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Abdizhamil Nurpeisov

Died in 2022

Abdizhamil Nurpeisov was born on 22 October 1924 in Kulandy, in the Aral district, into a family settled on that shore; his father, a hunter and later a kolkhoz fisherman, was killed at the front in 1944. Mobilised at eighteen, he fought from Luhansk to the Baltic countries and as far as the Courland pocket. Trained at the Gorky Institute in Moscow from 1954 to 1956, he edited the review Jouldyz, founded the Kazakh PEN club and received the title of People's Writer in 1985. He died in Almaty on 5 February 2022, in his ninety-eighth year.

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