Sabit Muqanov

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Säbit Muqanow on a Kazakh postage stamp

Säbit Muqanuly Muqanow ( Kazakh Сәбит Мұқанұлы Мұқанов , Russian Сабит Муканович Муканов Sabit Mukanowitsch Mukanow * April 13 jul. / 26. April  1900 greg. In the Oblast Akmolinsk, Russian Empire ; † 18th April 1973 in Alma-Ata ) was a Kazakh - Soviet writer.

Life

Monument of Säbit Muqanow in Almaty

Muqanow was born in 1900 in what is now northern Kazakhstan . He learned to write from the local mullah and began writing poetry at the age of 15. In 1918 and 1919 he attended the teachers' college in Omsk . At this time he also worked for the writer Maghschan Schumabai and wrote his first own poems. In it he addressed his own life in poor conditions and at the same time urged young people to study and strive for knowledge. After completing the teachers' seminar, he taught as a teacher in a village school.

In 1920 he joined the Communist Party and the following year he was a member of a special force of the Akmolinsk Oblast administration. From 1922 to 1926 Muqanow studied at the RabFak in Orenburg and then worked for the newspaper Jengbekschi qasaq until 1928 . His first novel about the class struggle in Kazakhstan was also published that year . In 1932 he began studying at the Institute of the Red Professorship in Moscow . After graduating from the institute in 1935, he returned to his homeland, where he was editor of the newspaper Qasaq ädebijeti. From 1936 to 1937 he was also chairman of the Writers' Union of the Kazakh SSR. He then taught at the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute in Alma-Ata until 1941 . During this time he was engaged in Kazakh literature from the 18th to the early 20th centuries and studied the works of well-known Kazakh authors. He wrote more than 200 scientific articles and published an ethnographic work in 1947 in which he had collected material on the culture, art, literature and language of the Kazakh people. From 1943 to 1951 he was again chairman of the Writers' Union. Since 1954 he was an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR . From 1958 to 1969 he was a member of the Soviet Peace Committee and, from 1965, also chairman of the Kazakh department of the Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Arab Countries.

In the 1960s, Muqanow's autobiographical trilogy was published , for which he received the State Prize of the Kazakh SSR in 1968. In the last years of his life he worked on a three-volume novel about the life of Schoqan Uälichanuly , but it remained unfinished.

Muqanov was also politically active. Between 1956 and 1966 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR . He was also a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR from 1947 to 1973.

He died on April 18, 1973 in Alma-Ata.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Sabit Mukanov  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Муканов Сабит , accessed on August 23, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Муканов Сабит Муканович. kazinform, accessed on August 23, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Muqanow, Säbit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muqanow, Säbit Muqanuly (full name); Мұқанов, Сәбит Мұқанұлы (Kazakh); Муканов Сабит Муканович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kazakh-Soviet writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Akmolinsk Oblast, Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1973
Place of death Alma-ata