Poetry
Касым ырларынын жыйнагы
Not translated into English
Kasym Tynystanov · 1925
Synopsis
About thirty poems written between 1920 and 1924, in Kazakh and Kyrgyz, by a man in his twenties, gathered in a volume that also contains a narrative poem and its first translations.
Context
The volume was published in Moscow, by the central press of the peoples of the Union, and gathers five years of work; it contains the poem Jangyl Myrza and its author's first translations, among them the Internationale and a fable by Krylov. His first poem in Kyrgyz, written in 1922 for his mother, owes its impetus to a Kazakh poet who taught at his institute. That same year, he edited the country's newspaper for two months, before taking the head of the scientific commission of public education of his region.
Who it is for
In Kyrgyz, never translated. It is worth knowing that the alphabet and the rules in which these verses are written had just been established by the very man who wrote them.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as its author's first poetry collection, and one of the very first books of Kyrgyz verse; accounts from the time say it spread among the people.