Kyrgyz-language literature

Soviet and Kyrgyz author (1928–2008)

Aqyn or akyn (, , ; both transcribed as aqın or اقىن), is an improvisational poet, singer, and oral repository within the Kazakh and Kyrgyz cultures. Aqyns differ from the zhyraus or manaschys, who are instead song performers or epic storytellers.

novel by Tsjyngyz Ajtmatov

encyclopedia

Soviet writer

Kyrgyz author (1931-2011)

epic of the Kyrgyz people and Turkic mythology

Kyrgyz writer (1905-1943)