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Turkmenistan

Author · Turkmenistan

Nurmyrat Saryhanov

Died in 1944

Nurmyrat Saryhanow was born in 1906 in Gökdepe, near Ashgabat. He studied in Tashkent and was from 1929 to 1937 a military journalist in the Red Army; he became known for short stories about Turkmen village life in the Soviet period. Called up again during the Second World War, he died on 4 May 1944 near the village of Delacău, in Moldavia. His stories were translated into Russian after the war, and a collection appeared in Moscow in 1961.

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