Sabit Mukanov

Sabit Mukanov was born on 26 April 1900 in northern Kazakhstan, into a family of herdsmen in the service of the rich, and learned his letters from the village mullah. He fought in the civil war, attended a workers' faculty and then, from 1932 to 1935, the Institute of Red Professors in Moscow. Founder and editor of the journal Qazaq ädebieti, he chaired the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan in the thirties, then from 1943 to the early fifties. An academician and winner of the Abai State Prize, he died in Almaty on 18 April 1973.

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• NovelБотагөзSabit Mukanov · 1938not translated into EnglishLiterature