Poet, translator (b. 1910, Aksu village
/ Nalchik / Kabardino Balkar Republic - d. 2001). He was the founder of
Published Balkar Literature. Because of being orphan, he worked as capstan in
his childhood. He graduated from School of Pedagogy in 1931. He worked as
teacher in schools, served in the institutions under the Ministry of Education.
The poet whose poems and songs sang by people joined the Foundation Congress of
the Writers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic in the presence of
Kabardino-Balkar writers and became a member of the Writers Union established
by Maxim Gorky. In addition to his literary works, he prepared text books. He
translated the poems of Puskhin, Lermantov, Ali Şir Nevai, Mayakovsky into
Balkarian. He wrote prose as well as poems. He worked as authorized Secretariat
of the Writers Union of Kabardino Balkar Republic and editor-in chief of the
review Şuyohluk. He was a State Artist and the veteran of
Motherland War.
WORKS:
Kızıl
Önle (Red Voices,
1935), Çuvak Ertdenlik (Morning with
Open Air, 1958), Svetlıye Dali (1960,
Remote Future is Lighted, Russian, Nalchik), Şuyohlanı Arasında (With the Friends, 1963), Çomartlık (Generosity, 1969), Navstreçu
Livnyu (Against the Rainfall, 1972, Russian, Nalchik), Moya Pesnya (My Song, 1973, Russian, Moscow), Saylamala (Selections, 1973), Jaşaunu
Kılançları (The Zigzags of the Life, 1988), Saylamala (Selections, 1992).