Tölögön Kasymbek () (also, Kasymbekov, also transliterated from Russian as Tolegen Kassymbekov) (15 January 1931 – 16 June 2011) was a Kyrgyz author who mostly wrote historical novels.
Life He was born in the village of Akjol. His father, a mullah, died when he was about 14 or 15 years old.
In 1952, while he was still a student, he published his fist work "Little Horseman" in the journal "Soviet Kyrgyzstan". The short story "I want to be a man" was published in Russian in 1965.Samet, A. Z. A. P. TÖLÖGÖN KASIMBEKOV’UN “İNSAN OLMAK İSTİYORUM” ÖYKÜSÜNÜN YAPI VE İZLEK YÖNTEMİYLE İNCELENMESİ. Türk Dünyası Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi, (43), 65-86.
His first longer work, the historical novel "The Broken Sword"Olpak Koç, Canan (2012). From Legend Tradition to Historical Novels: Tölögön Kasımbek and Broken Sword I,II. Journal of Turkish Studies 7:1885-1892. is also his most well known. It was first published in journals, being completed in 1966, and published in book form in 1971. It was translated into English by David Foreman and Sergei Sosinsky and published in 1980.
Novels The Broken Sword ("Сынган кылыч", 1966, 1971) Mature Age ("Жетилген Курак", 1976)Azap, S. (2016). TÖLÖGÖN KASIMBEKOV’UN CETİLGEN KURAK (OLGUN NESİL) ROMANINDA YAPI VE İZLEK: SOVYET TİPİ İNSAN YARATMA SÜRECİ . Uluslararası Türkçe Edebiyat Kültür Eğitim (TEKE) Dergisi , 5 (2) , 0-0 . DOI: 10.7884/teke.639 Welfare ("Келкел", 1986) Invasion ("Баскын", 2000) Massacre ("Кыргын", 2004)
Novellas I want to be a man Orphan
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