ATNABAYEV, Angam Kasimovich

ATNABAYEV, Angam Kasimovich [23.2. 1928 in Derevnya St.Kurdym of the Birsky Canton of the BASSR (now Tatyshlinsky Raion of the RB) — 13.10.1999 in Ufa]. People’s poet of the RB (1997). Merited Art Worker of the RSFSR (1988) and the BASSR (1977). Laureate of the Award named after G.Salyam (1971). Awarded with the 2nd Class Order for Merits to the Fatherland (1999). Member of the Union of Writers of the RB. Since 1943, he worked as a teacher at Aksaitovskaya and Starokurdymskaya Secondary Schools of Tatyshlinsky Raion. Between 1951—68, Assisstant Editor and Department Head at the Kyzyl Tan newspaper and between 1977—89, Deputy Editor of the Vily magazine (both – in Ufa). Author of the following collections of poems: Meeting with Youth (1961), Lines of My Heart (1971), Roads of Love (1982), etc. Also, he wrote the following plays: He Returned (1960), Mother’s Court (1963), Legal Marriage (1965) and Shunkar (1967).