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To Hell With Poets

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By (author): Baqytgul Sarmekova

Translated by: Mirgul Kali

The first English-language collection from an emerging talent of the Kazakh New Wave. Baqytgul Sarmekova offers wry, darkly humorous portraits of ordinary Kazakh people held in the snare of patriarchy, cultural tradition, and postsocialist upheaval... Mirgul Kali deftly recreates the atmosphere of these everyday tensions as they quietly seethe just below the surface. --PEN/Heim judges' citation. Vivid, hilarious and unsettling, the tragicomic characters of To Hell With Poets reflect the inner discord of the modern Kazakh. The stories move between the city and the aul, postsocialist and capitalist worlds, tradition and modernity. Incisive and unapologetic, Sarmekova refuses to hold back, offering a sharp and honest rendering of daily life in Kazakhstan. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: Tilted Axis Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781911284987

About Baqytgul Sarmekova

Baqytgul Sarmekova is a Kazakh writer who grew up in a small village by the Caspian Sea. Her publication includes two collections of stories: (An Incident in the Twilight) in 2019 and (In Search of a Character) in 2020. Sarmekova is the winner of the prose award at the 2016 Shabyt International Festival of Creative Youth and a recipient of a 2020 Rahymjan Otarbaev Foundation grant awarded bi-annually to talented young writers poets and playwrights.Mirgul Kali is a Kazakh-born translator based in the US. Her translations of short fiction by Kazakh writers have been published in Tupelo Quarterly Electric Literature Exchanges The Massachusetts Review Gulf Coast and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the 2018 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship and a 2022 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow.

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