Category
page 1Kyrgyz-language literature
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Soviet and Kyrgyz author (1928–2008)
akın
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.

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
novel by Tsjyngyz Ajtmatov

Kyrgyz literature
Kyrgyz Soviet Encyclopedia
encyclopedia
Kasymaly Bayalinov
Soviet writer
Tölögön Kasımbek
Kyrgyz author (1931-2011)
Er Töshtük
epic of the Kyrgyz people and Turkic mythology
Mukai Elebay
Kyrgyz writer (1905-1943)