Alykul Osmonov

Alykul Osmonov was born on 21 March 1915 at Kaptal-Aryk, in the Chui valley, into a poor family. Orphaned early, he was raised in a children's home, where he contracted the illness that wore him down all his life. Trained at a teacher training school, he published his first verses in a newspaper as early as 1930, wrote for the theatre and translated Russian and foreign poets into Kyrgyz. He died on 12 December 1950, at thirty-five.

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• PoetryМахабатAlykul Osmonov · 1945not translated into EnglishLiterature