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Kyrgyzstan

Author · Kyrgyzstan

Togolok Moldo

Died in 1942

Bayymbet Abdyrakhmanov, known as Togolok Moldo, the round mullah, was born in 1860 in the village of Kurtka, in the Ak-Talaa district. He lost his father at the age of fourteen and was raised by a half-brother who was a singer. The arrival of the reciter Tynybek in his village decided his life: the man noticed the child listening to him without blinking and took him away with him. A rare man of letters among improvisers, he read the great poets of the East and left a considerable legacy to his country's folklore studies. He died on 4 January 1942.

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