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Kyrgyzstan

Author · Kyrgyzstan

Tugelbay Sydykbekov

Died in 1997

Tugelbay Sydykbekov was born on 14 May 1912 in Keng-Suu, in the Issyk-Kul region, and lost his father very early. Educated at the Russian school in Karakol, then at an agricultural technical school in Frunze and a veterinary institute, he worked for the newspaper Leninchil Jash and published his first collection of poems in 1933. His novel People of Our Time received the Stalin Prize in 1949. People's Writer in 1968, named Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic in 1997, he died on 19 July of that same year in Bishkek.

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