Poetry
Насыят
Not translated into English
Togolok Moldo · 1925
Synopsis
A didactic poem, whose title denotes the advice an elder gives to the young. Its details are not known.
Context
Its author belonged to the line of akyns who wrote rather than merely improvised; he knew Nizami, Navoi, Firdausi, Hafiz and Abai. During the exodus of 1916 he lost the notebook in which he recorded his verses. He is not the first of this line to appear in print: another writing akyn had published a book in Kazan as early as 1911, and a second in Moscow in the same year as this one. He also left a version of the country's great epic, published in 2013.
Who it is for
Twenty-three pages, in Kyrgyz, never translated. It is worth knowing that the word in the title denotes a recognised genre, the poem of counsel.
Prizes and reception
No distinction is attested for this title. It opens a series of books that appeared until 1952, ten years after the death of its author.