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Kyrgyzstan

Author · Kyrgyzstan

Mukai Elebaev

Died in 1944

Mukai Elebaev was born on 15 January 1906 in the village of Chong-Tach, in the Tüp district, on the shore of Issyk-Kul, into a peasant family. Orphaned of his mother and then of his father, he was swept up at the age of eleven in the exodus to China, from which he returned in 1919. A writer, poet, playwright and translator, he is regarded as one of the founders of the literature of his country. He went to the front and died on 15 May 1944 in the Pskov district, then part of the Leningrad region.

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