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Olzhas Omarovich Suleimenov

Olzhas Omaruly Sүleymenov

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Olzhas Suleimenov in 2005 (Paris)

Date of birth May 18, 1936 (82 years)

Place of birth Kazakh ASSR, RSFSR, USSR

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Occupation

writer, literary critic, poet

Genre literature

Language of works Russian

Awards

Kazakhstan:

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THE USSR:

Order of the October Revolution Order of the Red Banner of Labor Order "Badge of Honor" Medal "For Labor Valor"

Winner of the State Prize of the Kazakh SSR Lenin Komsomol Prize

Other states:

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Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V Degree Cavalier of the Order of Arts and Literature (France)

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Olzhas Omarovich Suleimenov (Kaz. Olzhas Omaruly Suleimenov; b. May 18, 1936, Alma-Ata) - Kazakh poet, writer and literary critic. Hero of Labor of Kazakhstan, People's Writer of the Kazakh SSR (1990), social and political activist of Kazakhstan, diplomat. He gained fame as the author of linguistic studies, in particular, on the Turkic elements “Words about the regiment of Igor”. The ideas of Suleimenov, rejected by the scientific community, gained popularity in the Turkic world, including because of the political campaign against it in the Soviet era.

Biography

Born in 1936 in the family of a direct descendant of Olzhabay-Batyr (Kazakh) Russian. - Omarkhan Suleimenuly, an officer of the Kazakh cavalry regiment repressed in 1937. It originates from the subgenus Idabol of the Suyindyk clan of the Argyn tribe of the Middle Zhuz. Lev Gumilev, as he reported to Olzhas, sat with his father in the Norilsk camp, where he was shot [1].

He graduated from school in 1954 and entered the geological survey department of the Kazakh State University, graduated in 1959, an engineer-geologist. Last years of study combined with work in exploration parties.

Literary work began in 1955. In 1959 he entered the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky in Moscow to the department of poetic translation, but in 1961 was forced to interrupt his studies [2] [3]. Suleimenov's collection of poems, published in the Literary Gazette in June 1959, was the first publication of the poet in the national press [4].

In 1962-1971, a literary employee of the Kazakhstanskaya Pravda newspaper, the editor-in-chief of the scenic-editorial board of the Kazakhfilm studio, and the head of the journalism department in the Prostor magazine.

In 1971-1981 secretary of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan.

Since 1972, the chairman of the Kazakh Committee for Relations with Writers of Asian and African Countries, was one of the initiators and organizers of the 5th Conference of Asian and African Writers in 1975 in Almaty.

From the early 1970s to the late 1980s, Vice-Chairman of the Soviet Committee for Relations with the Countries of Asia and Africa.

In 1975, he published a literary book, Az and I. The Book of a Well-intentioned Reader, which received a sharply negative resonance in Moscow, the book was banned, the author was not published for 8 years, and practically stopped writing poetry.

Deputy, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh USSR (1980-1984), deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1984-1989, 1989-1991).

Delegate of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU (1981).

1981—1984 chairman of the State Committee of the Kazakh SSR on cinematography.

1984-1992 - First Secretary of the Board of the Writers 'Union of Kazakhstan, Secretary of the Board of the USSR Writers' Union.

He was a member of the editorial board of the journal "Detective and Politics".

Since 1992 - Honorary Chairman of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan, creative work.

In 1989 he became the initiator and leader of the popular movement “Nevada - Semipalatinsk”, whose goal was to close the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site and other nuclear test sites of the world.

1991-1995 - leader of the People's Congress of Kazakhstan party, into which the anti-nuclear movement was transformed, deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1994-1995).

1995-2001 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Italy (Rome) and part-time in Greece and Malta.

He continued his literary studies and published in 1998 in Rome the book "Language of Writing" "about the origin