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  • EpicThe Book of Dede KorkutKitaby Dädem GorkutAnonymous · 1400The tales of the Oghuz, ancestors of the Turkmens, long recited by bards before being set down in writing.Literature
  • EpicGörogly dessanyAnonymous · 1700not translated into EnglishA heroic cycle that Turkmen bards sing in episodes, between spoken passages.Literature
  • PoetryWagzy-AzatDovletmammet Azadi · 1754not translated into EnglishA treatise in verse on good government, written in the eighteenth century for Turkmen tribes that had no state.Literature
  • PoetrySongs from the Steppes of Central AsiaDiwanMagtymguly Pyragy · 1770The poems of an eighteenth-century Sufi scholar who reproaches the Turkmen tribes for their division.Literature
  • PoetryGül-BilbilAbdylla Şabende · 1800not translated into EnglishA marvellous love story, written in Turkmen by a poet who was also a musician.Literature
  • PoetryGoşgularMyrat Talyby · 1800not translated into EnglishPoverty and old age spoken of plainly, in simple rhymed Turkmen quatrains.Literature
  • PoetryGoşgularSeyitnazar Seydi · 1810not translated into EnglishThe verses of a poet who also led horsemen into battle, between the Amu Darya and the Kopet Dag.Literature
  • PoetryGoşgularGurbandurdy Zelili · 1820not translated into EnglishThe verses of a Turkmen poet who wrote to a friend of his homesickness, far from the Etrek.Literature
  • PoetryGoşgularMammetveli Kemine · 1840not translated into EnglishThe verses of a Turkmen satirist, which have reached us through the voices of singers more than through manuscripts.Literature
  • PoetryZöhre-TahyrMollanepes · 1850not translated into EnglishA love dastan, the most famous of a nineteenth-century poet who sang his verses to the dutar.Literature
  • CinemaThe Earth Is ThirstyZemlya zhazhdetYuli Raizman · 1930A desert village, a handful of students and the water that has to be brought in, at the turning point of sound cinema.Cinema
  • NovelSoulDzhanAndrei Platonov · 1935An envoy from Moscow charged with saving a people who have nothing left but their soul, in the sands of the Karakum.Literature
  • NovelAýgytly ädimBerdi Kerbabayev · 1940not translated into EnglishThe revolution seen from a Turkmen village, by the writer who became the official figure of the country's letters.Literature
  • CinemaDursunYevgeni Ivanov-Barkov · 1940A cotton picker's invention, and what it upsets in a Turkmen household of the thirties.Cinema
  • NarrativeŞükür bagşyNurmyrat Saryhanov · 1941not translated into EnglishA tale of olden times, in which a village musician sets his instrument against the force of arms to free one of his own from captivity.Literature
  • CinemaThe ContestSostyazanieBulat Mansurov · 1963A duel between musicians standing in for a battle, taken from a Turkmen tale and filmed as a graduation project.Cinema
  • CinemaMakhtumkuliAlty Karliev · 1968The life of the great Turkmen poet brought to the screen, between his native aul and a khan's court.Cinema
  • CinemaDaughter-in-LawNevestkaKhodzhakuli Narliev · 1972The wait of a widow who refuses to be one, beside an old shepherd, in the silence of the desert.Cinema
  • CinemaTaynyy posolKhalmamed Kakabaev · 1986A clandestine embassy to the tsar's court, at the time when the Turkmen tribes were seeking a protector.Cinema
  • CinemaLegenda drevnikh gorYazgeldy Seidov · 1988A bird hunt in the Turkmen heights, where the grandfather and the child learn from each other.Cinema
  • NovelThe Tale of AypiAýpi hakyndaky rowaýatAk Welsapar · 1988Caspian fishermen threatened with eviction and the ghost of a woman: the novel of a Turkmen writer in exile.Literature
  • CinemaOkhlamonEduard Redjepov · 1993A man whose kindness and love of dogs make him ridiculous in the eyes of his village.Cinema
  • CinemaKarakumArend Agthe and Usman Saparov · 1994Two boys who cannot understand each other, alone in the desert with a broken-down truck and plenty of ideas.Cinema