Togolok Moldo (Kyrgyz: Тоголок Молдо; real name: Байымбет Абдырахманов, Bayymbet Abdyrakhmanov; 10 June 1860 – 4 January 1942) was a Kyrgyz poet, Manaschi and folk song writer. Born in the village Kurtka in what is now the Ak-Talaa District, Naryn Region, Kyrgyzstan.[1] Togolok Moldo by his audiences – "togolok" means round-faced, "moldo" means an educated person. He is buried near the village of about 3,000 persons named for him in Ak-Talaa district.
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A 'Semetey', totalling around 2050 lines, was collected from him by Kayum Miftakov in 1922.[2] His later self-transcribed version of Manas was published in 2013.[3] A manuscript of a sanjira (genealogy) was edited and published in 2009.[4]
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Bibliography
edit- Тоголок Молдо. Избранное. (Togolok Moldo. Selected.) (1958, translated in Russian from Kyrgyz). Goslitizdat.
- Дорогой песен (1958, translated in Russian from Kyrgyz). Molodaya Gvardiya.
- Волк и лиса (Wolf and Fox, 1972, translated in Russian from Kyrgyz). Mektep.
References
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- ^ Тоголок Молдо, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- ^ Plumtree, James (2021). "A Telling Tradition: Preliminary Comments on the Epic of Manas, 1856–2018". In Thomson, S. C. (ed.). Medieval Stories and Storytelling: Multimedia and Multi-Temporal Perspectives. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 239-301 (p. 263). ISBN 978-2-503-59050-9.
- ^ "В Кыргызстане вышел в свет эпос «Манас» по варианту Тоголока Молдо". АКИpress. 2013-12-20.
- ^ Salk, Gundula, ed. (2009). Die Sanjïra des Togolok Moldo (1860–1942). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-06161-2.
External links
edit- Тоголок Молдо (Байымбет Абдырахманов). National Kyrgyz Library