Muqaghali Maqataev
Muqaghali Süleimenuly Maqatajew ( Kazakh Мұқағали Сүлейменұлы Мақатаев , Russian Мукагали Сулейменович Макатаев Mukagali Suleimenowitsch Makatajew * 9 February 1931 in Karassas , Rajymbek , Alma-Ata Oblast ; † 27. March 1976 in Almaty ) was a Kazakh-Soviet poet and translator.
life and work
His father died in World War II when he was ten years old. In 1948 he graduated from boarding school in Narynkol . He studied at the Kazakh National University (KazGu) at the Institute of Foreign Languages and the Institute of Law. He then worked as a Russian teacher and as an editor for a regional newspaper.
A marriage in 1949 gave birth to six children. In 1962 he moved with his family to Almaty, where he from then on worked as a spokesman for Kazakh radio, as a journalist for the newspaper Sozialistik Qasaqstan and for the magazine Schuldys as well as in the youth department of the Kazakh Writers' Association. His poems were published regularly in newspapers and magazines, and eight volumes of poetry were published from 1962 until his death in 1976 at the age of 45.
In total, he wrote more than 1,000 poems. Among his most famous works are Ilyich (Ильич), Raimbek! Raimbek! (Раимбек! Раимбек!), Gorny orel (Горный орел), Beglez (Беглец) and Mawr (Мавр). Many of his poems were set to music as songs. He also made a name for himself as a translator; among other things, he translates the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy , Shakespeare and some Russian poets into Kazakh.
Translations
- Mountains are legend . Translation by Mario Pschera and Valerija Weiser. Dağyeli Verlag , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-935597-52-4 (German / Kazakh).
Web links
- Literature by and about Muqaghali Maqatajew in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Life and works of Kazakh writers. In: Literary portal of Kazakhstan authors. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Mukagali Makatajew. (No longer available online.) In: Kazakhstan. National encyclopedia (1998-2007). Archived from the original on March 3, 2016 ; accessed on May 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Didar Kassymova, Zhanat Kundakbayeva, Ustina Markus (ed.): Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan . Scarecrow Press, 2012, pp. 178 f .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maqataev, Muqaghali |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maqatajew, Muqaghali Sulimenuly (full name); Мақатаев, Мұқағали Сүлейменұлы (Kazakh-Cyrillic); Makatajew, Mukagali Suleimenowitsch (Russian-Latin); Макатаев, Мукагали Сулейменович (Russian-Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kazakh-Soviet poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karassas , Rajymbek , Alma-Ata Oblast |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1976 |
| Place of death | Almaty |