Mukaghali Makatayev
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| Native name | Мұқағали Мақатаев |
| Born | Mukagali Makatayev February 9, 1931 Qarasaz village, Raymbek district, Almaty Region |
| Died | March 17, 1976 Almaty |
| Language | Kazakh language |
| Nationality | Kazakh |
Mukaghali Makatayev (Template:Lang-kk, February 9, 1931 – March 27, 1976) was a Kazakh Soviet poet, writer and translator.
Early life
Mukaghali Makatayev was born on February 9, 1931 in Karasaz village in Narynkol (modern Raiymbek) district of Almaty Region. In 1948-1949 he studied at the Faculty of Philology of the Kazakh State University.
Career
In 1952–1969 he worked in a high school as a teacher of Russian language, a speaker on the Kazakh Radio, an executive secretary of The Soviet border (Template:Lang-kk) newspaper, a literary contributor to the newspapers Socialist Kazakhstan (Template:Lang-kk) and Culture and Life (Template:Lang-kk) and Star (Template:Lang-kk) magazine. In 1970 he joined the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan. In 1973–1974 he studied in the Moscow Institute of Arts and Letters.[1][2]
Mukaghali Makatayev’s poetic works were first published in 1948. He became famous with his poem «Appassionata» (Template:Lang-kk, 1962). The poems "Lenin" (Template:Lang-kk, 1964) and "The Moor" (Template:Lang-kk, 1970) were devoted to Lenin and Marx. Poetry collections Hello Friends (Template:Lang-kk, 1966), You came, my Swallow? (Template:Lang-kk, 1968), Alas, my heart (Template:Lang-kk, 1972), When swans asleep (Template:Lang-kk, 1974), The warmth of life (Template:Lang-kk, 1975), Poem of Life (Template:Lang-kk, 1976), River of Life (Template:Lang-kk, 1978), Heart sings (Template:Lang-kk, 1-2 Books, 1982), Sholpan (Template:Lang-kk, 1984) and others entered the golden fund of the Kazakh national poetry. Prose works were included in the collection titled Two Swallows (Template:Lang-kk, 1988). Many of Makatayev’s poems were turned into songs.[1]
Makatayev translated into the Kazakh language sonnets of William Shakespeare (1970), poems of Walt Whitman (1969), Dante's Divine Comedy (1971), and other literary works.
Death
Mukaghali Makatayev died in Almaty on March 27, 1976, at the age of 45. In 1999 Mukaghali Makatayev was posthumously awarded the State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the collection of poems under the title «Amanat».[1]
References
- ^ a b c Makatayev Mukaghali // Kazakhstan. National encyclopedia (1998—2007). Almaty: Қазақ энциклопедиясы. 2005. ISBN 9965-9389-9-7.
{{cite book}}: External link in|title= - ^ Kozybayev, Manash (1991). Kazakh SSR. 4-volume short encyclopedia. Главная редакция Казахской Советской энциклопедии. p. 370. ISBN 9785898000233.
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