Poetry
Махабат
Not translated into English
Alykul Osmonov · 1945
Synopsis
The 1945 collection with which, according to Kyrgyz critics, the period of its author's full flowering begins, after a decade of youthful verse and translations. Neither its table of contents nor its poems are known.
Context
The collection was published in Frunze in 1945, after three collections from the thirties, the first of which dated from 1935. The poet found his full manner in it and went on to give his most widely read poems, Tolubay the Connoisseur of Horses or My Poor Karagul. A selection of his verse appeared in Russian in Moscow in 1950, under the title Mon foyer, and was put forward for the Stalin Prize in the very year the poet died, in Frunze.
Who it is for
Short poems in Kyrgyz, little translated. They are nonetheless learned by heart in Kyrgyzstan.
Prizes and reception
Kyrgyz critics see in it the beginning of its author's highest period; his poems are learned in the country's schools.