Äžabdulla Tuqay
Gabdulla Tuqay ( Tatar Габдулла Мөхәммәтгариф улы Тукай; * 14.jul / April 26 1886greg in Kuschlautsch at Arsk, .. .. † 2.jul / April 15 1913greg in Kazan ) was a Tatar folk poet, literary critic, essayist and translator.
Life
Both parents died when he was still a child. He lived nine years in Uralsk, learned in Koranic schools and visited the Russian school. From 1905 he worked as a typesetter and later published in newspapers and magazines (El Marsa - Jadida ) Poems and satires. In 1907 he made the acquaintance of Kazan democratically-minded writers such as Xösäyen Yamaşev and Ğäliäsğar Kamal, with whom he edited the satirical magazine Yasen ( 1908-1909 ), in which he castigated the tsarist government, the nationalist bourgeoisie and the clergy also in poems. He also translated Pushkin, Lermontov, Maikov, Pleschtschejew, Polonsky, Koltzov, Nikitin and Tolstoy to the Tatar. Tuqay is often called the founder of modern Tatar literature and the new Tatar literary language.