Sultan Yashurkayev

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Sultan Jaschurkajew ( Russian Султан Яшуркаев , scientific transliteration Sultan Jašurkaev , also Soultan Iachourkaev; born April 22, 1942 in Eschilchatoj, Chechnya ; † January 30, 2018 in Geraardsbergen , Belgium ) was a Chechen writer.

Life

When Stalin ordered the collective deportation of the Chechen people in 1944 , Yashurkayev, then two years old, was expelled to Kazakhstan and experienced deprivation and hunger. As a boy he tended cows in the steppe, and did not start school until he was eleven.

When Khrushchev allowed the Chechens to return, Yashurkaev returned to Eshilchatoj in 1957. He was the only one who read books from the village library. Yashurkaew graduated from the Grozny School of Education . He then studied at the Law Faculty of Moscow University , which he graduated in 1973.

He then worked for the prosecutor in various parts of Russia and in Chechnya. At the same time, memories of Kazakhstan gave rise to stories about the life of the Chechens at the time of their deportation. Yashurkaev later learned the written Chechen language, which was not taught in school.

Some of the stories written in Chechen are autobiographical: The Potatoes, Easter, Watermelon Peel, The Boy and the Field Shear . The stories against the children, Sina, Napsa, Zajba, The white spot in the evening twilight, Semyon , also deal with the deportation . Yaschurkaew was accepted into the Union of Writers of the USSR , but his works were not printed until the beginning of perestroika .

At the beginning of the First Chechnya War , he wrote diary-like notes during the bombing in Grozny in 1995. The notes appeared under the title Zarapiny na oskolkach 2002 in Moscow. Radio Liberty broadcast readings of several chapters. French and German translations followed. The contemporary document was recognized as “rempart d'humanité contre la haine” (L'Express, May 25, 2006). In 1999, during the Second Chechen War , a bomb destroyed Yashurkayev's house. Many of his works were lost in the ruins. He was forced to leave Chechnya. From 2001 Sultan Yaschurkaew lived in Belgium .

Sultan Yashurkaev wrote prose and poetry. Stories and short stories in Russian and Chechen have been published in books and magazines, and poems, etc. a. in the anthology Зерна звезд .

Publications

  • Stories Die Kartoffeln (Картошка) and Sina (Зина), published in the volume Des Nouvelles de Tchétchénie , Éditions Paris Méditerranée, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84272-231-0 (French), in the anthology Writing in War - Writing about War , Tales from Chechnya, Kitab-Verlag, Klagenfurt-Wien 2006, ISBN 978-3-902005-91-5 (German).
  • Zarapiny na oskolkach (Царапины на осколках) appeared under the pseudonym Ju, derived from the native village. Seschil, Graal, Moscow 2002, French edition: Soultan Iachourkaev, Survivre en Tchétchénie , Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-07-073537-0 , German edition: Sultan Jaschurkaew, scratched on splinters , translation by Marianne Herold and Ruslan Bazgiew, Kitab -Verlag, Klagenfurth-Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902585-21-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to other information on January 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Yashurkayev, Sultan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jašurkaev, Sultan; Яшуркаев, Султан (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chechen writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschilchatoj, Chechnya
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: January 30, 2018
Place of death Geraardsbergen , Belgium