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Сәкен Сейфуллин

1894–1938 · poet, writer, public figure

Poet, prose writer and public figure. He stood at the beginnings of written Kazakh literature of the Soviet period.

Saken Seifullin was a poet, prose writer and public figure. His legacy includes verse collections, poems, plays and the memoir novel The Thorny Path. His life is closely tied to Kazakhstan’s cultural and public life in the first third of the twentieth century.