The Code of the Word

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Metropolitan Classics

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491_9781574800050

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Olzhas Suleimenov was bornin Alma-Ata (currently Almaty),Kazakhstan, in 1936. He graduatedKazakh State University in 1959, andthen Gorky Institute of Literature inMoscow in 1961. Between 1962and1971, he actively worked as ajournalist, and in 1983, he becamethe head of the Kazakhstans WritersUnion. He works are written in theRussian language. His most celebratednovel, Az and I, was published in 1975.The novel created a great stir, and wascriticized by the literary elite in Russia.Suleimenov was charged with national chauvinism and glorificationof feudal nomadic culture. His other works include: Argamaks (1961),Earth, Bow to the Man (1961), Kind Time of Sunrise (1964), Year ofthe Monkey (1967), The Book of Clay (1969), and Prehistoric Turks -On the Origins of Ancient Turkic Languages and Writing (2002).Suleimenov earned great acclaim on a global scale in 1989,when he organized the international environmental movementNevada - Semipalatinsk which campaigned for the closure ofboth the nuclear test sites in the Nevada desert, as well as in theSemipalatinsk Province of Kazakhstan.In 1995, Suleimenov was appointed asKazakhstans Official Ambassador to theVatican. From 2002 onwards, he servedas Kazakhstans Ambassador for theUNESCO in Paris. The Code of the Wordis one of his latest literary works.

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