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Kyrgyzstan

Author · Kyrgyzstan

Temirkul Umetaliev

Died in 1991

Temirkul Umetaliev was born in 1908 in the village of Too-Jar, in the Jangy-Jol district. Raised from 1925 in an orphanage in Ak-Suu, he graduated in 1929 from the teacher training college in Jalal-Abad, taught for two years in the Nookat district, then held posts in the Komsomol before moving to Frunze in 1931. His first poem appeared the same year. An editor of youth newspapers and first secretary of the writers' union, he later headed the journal Ala-Too. He was named People's Poet of Kyrgyzstan and died in 1991.

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