Description
The first English-language collection from the rising star of a new generation of Kazakh writers.
About the Author
Baqytgul Sarmekova is a Kazakh writer who grew up in a small village by the Caspian Sea. She began writing in 2014, after graduating from the Western Kazakhstani Engineering and Humanities University, where she studied law. She has since published 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.
Awards
Short-listed for English PEN Translates Award 2023.
Book Information
ISBN 9781911284987
Author Baqytgul Sarmekova
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Tilted Axis Press
Publisher Tilted Axis Press