Dzhoomart Bokonbaev

Dzhoomart Bokonbaev was born on 16 May 1910 in the village of Mazar-Say, in Ketmen-Töbö, into a poor family. An orphan early on, he was brought up from 1924 to 1926 in a children's home near Jalal-Abad, then went through the schools of Osh and Frunze, from which he emerged a schoolteacher in 1931, before the Communist University in Moscow in 1935. His first poem appeared in 1927; he joined the Union of Soviet Writers in 1934, wrote for the theatre and the opera and translated Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov. He died on 1 July 1944 in a car accident on the shore of Issyk-Kul.

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• PoetryАлтын кызDzhoomart Bokonbaev · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature