Author · Kazakhstan
Abish Kekilbayev
Died in 2015
Abish Kekilbayev was born on 6 December 1939 in the aul of Ondy, in Mangystau. A graduate of the philology faculty of Kazakh State University in 1962, he worked in the literary press, at the Ministry of Culture and on the scripts committee of the Kazakhfilm studio, then was deputy minister of culture of the republic. Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in 1994 and 1995, State Secretary from 1996 to 2002, then senator until 2010, he translated Shakespeare, Ibsen and Tolstoy into Kazakh. Named People's Writer in 1992, he died in December 2015.
In the catalogue 1
- Short storiesBir shökim bultAbish Kekilbayev · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature