Gabit Musrepov

Gabit Musrepov

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1902-03-22
Deathday: 1985-12-31 (83 years old)

Biography

Gabit Makhmutuli Musirepov (Kazakh: Ğabit Mahmūtūly Müsırepov, Ғабит Махмұтұлы Мүсірепов; Russian: Габит Махмутович Мусрепов; 22 March 1902 – 31 December 1985) was a Soviet Kazakh writer, playwright and author of libretto to Kazakh opera Kyz-Zhibek. He was awarded the People's Writer of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, served as President of the Kazakhstan Union of Writers, and was a member of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. Gabit Musirepov was born on 22 March 1902 in a village located in Kostanay region, then belonging to the Russian Empire. Between 1923 and 1926, he studied at the Faculty of Workers in Orenburg, and then at the agroeconomic institute at Omsk. He started his literary career in 1925, writing his first story, To the Abyss (В пучине) in 1928, about events that occurred during the Russian Civil War, 1918–1920. In 1928, he collaborated at the literary journal Jana-Adabiet (Жана-Адабиет). Among his works stand out Kyz-Zhibek (Қыз Жібек), first libretto to a Kazakh opera, with music by Yevgeny Brusilovsky, and Poet's Tragedy (Трагедия поэта), written in 1958 (first version titled Ақан сері Ақтоқты, 1942), that dealt with the tragedy of Ajani, a Kazakh singer and composer of the 19th century.

He was President to the Union of Kazakh Writers between 1956–1962 and 1964–1966, Secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers (1959) and member of the 5th Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. He died on 31 December 1985, and was buried in Kensai Cemetery.

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Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1902-03-22

Deathday
1985-12-31 (83 years old)

Citizenships
Russian Empire, Soviet Union

Awards
Order of the October Revolution, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's writer of Kazakh SSR, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of Lenin

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