Abylkasym Dzhutakeev

Abylkasym Dzhutakeev was born in the Talas valley, the sources hesitating between 1880 and 1888, and died in 1931. He belonged to the writer akyns, those bards who, between the end of the nineteenth century and the 1930s, committed their own poems to paper in Arabic script and brought onto the page an art that had until then been sung. His verses appeared in volume form only after his death. He devoted part of his work to the events of 1916, and another part to the October Revolution and the ideas of the Communist Party.

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• Poetry1916-жылAbylkasym Dzhutakeev · 1917not translated into EnglishLiterature