Saken Omur


Saken Ömür is a Kyrgyz writer and poet from China.
Saken was born in 1927 in Karajül village outside of Artush. From 1943 till 1946 he studied at Kashgar Normal College.
He worked as a teacher at the Central University for Nationalities from 1957 to 1966, and as an editor for the Kyzylsuu newspaper from 1979 till his retirement in 1987.
His first work When I see it with my own eyes was published in 1961. During the sixties he also did a lot of work on the collecting, writing and publishing of Jusup Mamay's version of the Manas epic.
His novel Joyful Road received the Tulpar literature award.

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