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Kyrgyzstan

Author · Kyrgyzstan

Kasymaly Bayalinov

Died in 1979

Kasymaly Bayalinov was born on 25 September 1902 in Kök-Moynok, in the Issyk-Kul region. An orphan, he was raised by relatives and, during the Ürkün of 1916, fled to China with his people. Back after the revolution, he studied in Tashkent and became one of the founders of Kyrgyz prose. He received in 1968 the title of People's Writer of Kyrgyzstan and died in 1979. A library in Bishkek, devoted to children and young people, bears his name.

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