Mağjan Jumabayev
| Mağjan Jumabayev | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
25 June 1893 Akmolinsk Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died |
19 March 1938 Almaty, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Nationality | Kazakh |
Mağjan Jumabayev (Kazakh: Мағжан Бекенұлы Жұмабаев) was a prominent Qazaq writer and pedagogue, one of the modern Qazaq literature's founders.
Biography
From 1905 until 1910 Mağjan Jumabayev was studying in Petropavl madrasah, learning there Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages. 1910 and 1911 were the years when he was studying in Ufa madrasah, where one of the teachers was Galimjan İbragimov, the Volga Tatar classical writer. In 1912 his Qazaq poetry collected with the "Şolpan" name and written with Arabic alphabet was published and right away became popular among the Qazaq intellectuals.
During the summer and winter of 1917 he has been taking part in the creation of Qazaq "Alaş" party and Alaş Orda Qazaq national government at both All-Qazaq congresses as delegate of Akmolinsk Oblast.
Living later in Moscow he translated the works of Lermontov, Koltsov, Balmont, Merezhkovsky, Ivanov, Mamin-Sibiriak, Maksim Gorky, Alexander Blok, Goethe, Heine and other poets into Qazaq language. After the graduation in higher education there in 1927 he returned to Qazaqstan and had been working as teacher.
Arrest
Because of the unfair accusation of being Pan-Turkist member of Alaş Orda and Japanese spy, Jumabayev was arrested in Petropavl and convicted for the 10-year deprivation of liberty. Until the court he had been staying in Butyrka prison, and later was sent to Karelia and Arkhangelsk Oblast. In 1934 Maksim Gorky and Peshkova received the letter from him and due to their intercession Mağjan Jumabayev was emancipated before the appointed time. However, just half a year later he was arrested in Almaty again and executed by shooting of NKVD on 19 March 1938.
Films
- 1990 — "Мағжан»" Mağjan (Documentary) "Kazakhtelefilm" film director Kalila Umarov.