Osman Balaev

Writer, Poet

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Balalanı Osman

Poet and writer (b. 1928, Köndelen / Kabardino / Balkar Republic - d. 1983). Although his field of occupation was economy, he began working in the newspaper Kommunizmge Jol on his return to homeland. He is known as the pioneer of a literary genre, fable (tamsil, basnya in Balkar language), which was not formerly present in Balkar literature and was rarely found in world literature.

WORKS:

Basnyala bla Felyetonla (Fables and Anectodes of Satire, 1962), Ak Kayanı Allında (In front of the White Rock, 1965), Başçı Teke (Governor Goat, 1968).

 

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