Kazakhstan All works

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• PoetryWisdom of Royal GloryQutadgʻu biligYusuf Khass Hajib · 1070The eleventh-century Karakhanid khanate, between Balasagun and Kashgar, where a court scholar writes a mirror for princes in Turkic.Literature
• PoetryҚырында киік жайлағанAsan Qaighy · 1450not translated into EnglishThe steppe of the fifteenth century, at the time when the Kazakh khanate is taking shape and the tribes are looking for a place to settle.Literature
• PoetryАлаң да алаң, алаң жұртKaztugan Zhyrau · 1450not translated into EnglishThe lower Volga in the fifteenth century, when nomadic clans leave the Edil for the steppes of the east.Literature
• EpicАлпамысAnonymous · 1500not translated into EnglishThe world of the Turkic nomads of Central Asia in their struggle against the Kalmyks, as the storytellers sing it.Literature
• PoetryБи Темірге айтқан бірінші толғауыShalkiiz Tilenshiuly · 1550not translated into EnglishThe court of a Nogai prince in the sixteenth century, where the jyrau is at once counsellor, warrior and poet.Literature
• PoetryСүйінбай мен Қатағанның айтысыSuyunbai Aronuly · 1847not translated into EnglishA sung contest of the nineteenth century between a Kazakh poet and a Kyrgyz poet, at a ceremony bringing the two nations together.Literature
• PoetryБаймағамбет сұлтанға айтқан толғауыSherniyaz Zharylgasuly · 1850not translated into EnglishThe west of the Kazakh steppe in the wake of the uprising of Isatay Taymanov and Makhambet Utemisuly, led from 1836 to 1838.Literature
• EpicSpecimens of the Folk Literature of the Turkic TribesProben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen StämmeVasily Radlov · 1870The Kazakh steppes and the Altai between 1860 and 1880, where a philologist takes down at dictation what the reciters sing, as the Russian empire completes its conquest.Literature
• EssayBook of WordsQara sözderAbai Kunanbaiuly · 1898The Kazakh steppe of the late nineteenth century, where a literate notable judges his own people and urges them to educate themselves.Literature
• PoetryБалқадишаAkan Seri · 1903not translated into EnglishThe steppe of Kökchetau at the very beginning of the twentieth century, where a song improvised at a feast could make a young girl famous.Literature
• PoetryMosquitoMasaAkhmet Baitursynov · 1911Orenburg in the early 1910s, where Kazakh men of letters found a press and a poetry of struggle in their own language.Literature
• NovelThorny PathТар жол, тайғақ кешуSaken Seifullin · 1927The account of the revolt, the civil war and the revolution in the steppe, by a man who took part in them and who writes ten years later.Literature
• NovelНенавистьIvan Shukhov · 1932not translated into EnglishThe collectivisation of the countryside of northern Kazakhstan, from 1928 to 1929, seen from a village on the steppe.Literature
• PoetryKulagerҚұлагерIlyas Zhansugurov · 1936A Kazakh narrative poem about a racehorse and about what being first is worth on the steppe.Literature
• NovelБотагөзSabit Mukanov · 1938not translated into EnglishThe Kazakh steppe from the First World War to the civil war, when Bolshevik ideas reach the auls.Literature
• PoetryЛенинградтық өренімZhambyl Zhabayev · 1941not translated into EnglishThe appeal of a Kazakh akyn to the inhabitants of besieged Leningrad, in 1941, which became one of the most widely circulated texts of the war in the Soviet Union.Literature
• NovelAbaiАбай жолыMukhtar Auezov · 1942The Kazakh steppe under the Russian Empire, told through the life of the poet Abai Kunanbaev, from childhood to maturity.Literature
• NovelVolokolamsk HighwayВолоколамское шоссеAlexander Bek · 1943The battle of Moscow in the autumn of 1941, seen from a single infantry battalion and through its commander.Literature
• NovelАк-МечетьNikolai Anov · 1948not translated into EnglishThe Russian conquest of the Syr Darya in the middle of the nineteenth century, seen by a poet exiled in the Orenburg army.Literature
• NovelСнега метельныеIvan Shchegolikhin · 1958not translated into EnglishThe virgin lands of northern Kazakhstan, in the time of the first pioneers who came from all over the Union.Literature
• NovelBlood and SweatҚан мен терAbdizhamil Nurpeisov · 1961A trilogy about fishermen of the Aral Sea, caught up in war and revolution, written by a man from that shore.Literature
• Short storiesBir shökim bultAbish Kekilbayev · 1966not translated into EnglishA Kazakh aul at the time of the Second World War, where the women are left alone to face bereavement and work.Literature
• Feature filmLand of the FathersЗемля отцовShaken Aimanov · 1966A film of the Thaw: a long train journey across the Soviet Union to bring a dead man home.Cinema
• NovelThe NomadsКөшпенділерIlyas Yesenberlin · 1969The great fictional fresco of Kazakh history, in three books, from the fifteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth.Literature
• NovelВ городе ВерномDmitry Snegin · 1970not translated into EnglishVerny, a town of Semirechye on the borders of imperial Russia, at the moment when the revolution reaches it.Literature
• Feature filmQyz ZhibekSultan Khodzhikov · 1970The Kazakh steppe of the epics, where a given word binds entire clans and a wounded suitor can reignite a war.Cinema
• CinemaШоқ пен ШерKanymbek Kasymbekov · 1972A film for young people shot in Kazakhstan in the early seventies, about the friendship between a boy and a foal.Cinema
• EssayAz i YaOlzhas Suleimenov · 1975The Soviet Union of the mid-seventies, where the shared past of the Slavs and the nomads of the steppe remains a sensitive subject.Literature
• NovelҰлпанGabit Musrepov · 1976not translated into EnglishA woman of the nineteenth-century Kazakh steppe, married very young to a powerful man, who wins her independence.Literature
• NovelКолоколMaurice Simashko · 1981not translated into EnglishThe Kazakh steppe of the nineteenth century, from the Tobol to the lakes of the Turgay, when the first schools in the Kazakh language open.Literature
• Feature filmThe NeedleIglaRashid Nugmanov · 1988Alma-Ata under perestroika, where young people listen to rock, take drugs and expect little from the country that raised them.Cinema
• Feature filmRevengeMestYermek Shinarbayev · 1989An odyssey of vengeance across two generations, from Korea to China and to the island of Sakhalin, in a Korean family of the Russian Empire and then of the Soviet Union.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Last StopKonechnaya ostanovkaSerik Aprimov · 1990A Kazakh village in the late 1980s, seen by a young man made a stranger at home by two years in the army.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Fall of OtrarОтырардың күйреуіArdak Amirkulov · 1991A Kazakh fresco about the intrigues that preceded the destruction of Otrar by Genghis Khan's armies, filmed on the eve of the end of the Soviet Union.Cinema
• Feature filmSurzhekey: Angel of DeathСұржекей — өлім періштесіDamir Manabaev · 1991A Kazakh film about the great famine of the thirties, a subject that remained forbidden throughout the Soviet period.Cinema
• Feature filmBiografiya yunogo akkordeonistaSatybaldy Narymbetov · 1994A Kazakh village under Stalin, seen by a filmmaker who grew up there and who films it forty years later.Cinema
• Feature filmLast HolidayПоследние каникулыAmir Karakulov · 1996A Kazakh film of the mid-1990s about three adolescents in Alma-Ata at the end of the Brezhnev years, and about what a denunciation sets off.Cinema
• Feature filmKillerDarezhan Omirbaev · 1998Almaty at the end of the nineties, where money settles everything and a trifling debt can stand in for destiny.Cinema

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