Smagul Yelubay
Smagul Abatuly Yelubay is a Kazakh writer and scriptwriter. He serves as a Secretary of Writers' Union of Kazakhstan.
Life
Smagul Yelubayev was born on March 9, 1947, in Chardzhou, Turkmenistan. In 1961, his family moved to Almaty, Kazakhstan.- 1971 graduated from Kazakh State University;
- 1975 graduated from High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors;
- 1976-1992 worked as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Kazakhfilm;
- 1992-1995 worked as an Editor-in-Chief at Parasat magazine;
- 1995-2004 worked as a journalist at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague, Czech Republic;
- 2008-2010 worked as an Editor-in-Chief at Kazakhfilm;
- From 2010 professor at Kazakh National Academy of Arts.
Literary works
- «Ойсыл-Қара», Almaty;
- «Саттар соқпағы», Almaty;
- «Жарық дүние», Almaty;
- «На свете белом», Moscow;
- «Ақ боз үй», novel, Almaty, republished several times;
- «Одинокая юрта», Almaty, 1992. The novel trilogy is about the famine of 1937 in Kazakhstan and the repressions of 1937, part 2. "Prayer", part 3. «Mortal coil» ;
- «Молитва», novel, Almaty
- «Бренный мир», novel, Almaty
- «Век страшного суда»
- Lonely Yurt in English published by Kazakh Pen Club in the USA, which received the nomination "Book of the Week" on Amazon.com in November 2016.
- «Ақ боз үй» is a collection of works in 2 volumes;
- «Arasat meidany» in Turkish, Ankara, Turkey;
- «Una Yurta Solitaria» in Spanish, Madrid, Spain.
Filmography
Scriptwriter- 1982 — Red Yurt
- 1983 — Atone
- 1983 — House under the loon
- 1991 — Surzhekey - The Angel of Death, Grand-Prize in the Silver Crescent Film Festival, Ashkhabad, Grand-Prize in the Bastau Film Festival, Almaty
- 1992 — Batyr Bayan
- 2004 — Revenge
- 2012 — The Hunter Boy, Best Foreign Drama Award in International Family Film Festival in Hollywood
- 2016 — Diamond sword
- 2016 — Land of Kazakhs
- 2016 — Oasis
- 2018 — «Бала гашыктык»
Awards
- Order of Kurmet
- PEN Club's Award
- State scholarship in the field of culture,
- By the decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for outstanding achievements in the Kazakh literature and culture, he was awarded the "Order of Parasat"