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People's writer Kabdesh Zhumadilov has died
05-04-2021
Today, the famous writer, People's Writer of Kazakhstan, laureate of the State Prize Kabdesh Zhumadilov has died at the age of 85. 

Kabdesh Zhumadilov was born on April 24, 1936 in Shaueshek district, Tarbagatai District, Xinjiang Region, China. People's Writer of Kazakhstan. 

The poems of the writer "Zhas Dauren", "geese are returning", "Sary zhailau", "Sharaina", "Saigulkary", collections of short stories, novels, novels" Kokeykesi"," on the way to happiness"," Atameken", etc.," The Last Street " are well known to readers. Zhumadilov was awarded the State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after Abai for the novel "Tagdyr", which describes the life and struggle of the Kazakhs for the liberation of East Turkestan.

Kabdesh Zhumadilov gave one of the interviews in the interview section of the National State Book Chamber of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Asyl Soz". In the same interview, the writer told about the history of the institution:: 

"This place is familiar to us, it's hot. How many times we had a road, and the guys and I had a taste. This place has always been controlled by the writers themselves. Takhaoui Akhtanov was at the time. Then the lighting works will be transferred to the deputy Akkenge. The deputy is excellent. 

At the time when we lived in tahan, we both met at the House of Creativity. We are writing an essay. In that house of creativity, where there are ten people, the director will not save. Then Tahan: 

 -What's wrong with you-Hey? You can't control ten people?! After all, we ourselves spent it keeping a woman there, sixty typyr, what will be, what will be. (laughs)

He was a good-natured, friendly person, like a child. He loved to praise, to brag, and did not hide it from the heart. Real pos..."

"The Book Chamber is not an alien institution to us. The book is a writer. So, this is a writers ' institution. Here is an archive of all the writers, the facts of their works. I retired at the age of sixty. After 40 years, I went to work. They say that when you retire, you need a work experience, let me have some experience. I graduated from KazGU myself for almost nine years. For four years I was in shock. Then someone said: "If you go to the book chamber, your experience will be calculated from the day of the first issue." "I don't know," he said. Indeed, the release date, circulation, publishing house of all my works are off the scale here. The law can create around half an hour."

The staff of the National State Book Chamber expresses its condolences to the wife of Kabdesh Zhumadilov, Saula Aukenovna, her children, relatives and friends. "Yes," he said, " I do not know what to do for you.
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