Poet (b. 1936, Aksu village / Kabardino
/ Balkar Republic). He began writing poems in 1958. He graduated from
Kabardino-Balkar University, Faculty of Philology, Department of Russian-Balkar
in 1964. He worked as an editor in Elbruz Publications between the years 1964
and 1976. For long years he worked as the Editor of the literature periodicals Şuyohluk and Mingi Tau. His books were published in Balkar language and in
Russian language in Nalchik and in Moscow; in addition his poems were published
in various languages. He made translations of Pushkin, Shakespeare, Yesevi,
Molierè works to Balkar language. He got the awards of Kabardino-Balkar
Republic Youth Literature Award (1970) and Republic State Award. He is a member
of Soviet Socialist Republican Union - Russian Federation Writer’s Association.
WORKS:
Jolğa
Çığama (I Am setting
Out, 1962), Poemala (The Poems,
1964), Prodoljeniye Vesnı (The
Continuation of Spring, in Russian, Moscow, 1968), Jetegeyle (The Aries Constellation, 1972), Balkarskaya Ballada (Balkar Ballade, in Russian, Moscow, 1974), Eliya Beşik (Bed of Lightening, 1978), Tuvğan Taşım (Where I Was Born, 1983), Ara Boran (Valley of the Winds, 1986), Saylama Köçürmele (Selected
Translations, 1991), Çeksiz Jer: Saylama
Köçürmele (Infinite Space: Selected Translations, 1994), İgi Kuvum (Good Wishes, 1996), Kolıbelnaya Dlya Molniyi (The Lullaby of
Lightening, in Russian, Nalchik, 2000).
