Qaysin Quli

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Kaysyn Shuvayevich Kuliev (Russian: Кайсын Шуваевич Кулиев) aka Qaysin Quli (Balkar: Къули Къайсын) (November 1, 1917 - June 4, 1985) was a Balkar poet. He wrote in the Karachay-Balkar language and his poems are widely translated mostly to USSR laguages, such as Russian and Ossetian.

Qaysin was born at November 1 1917 in Balkar aul Upper Chegem in the family of stock-breeder and hunter. His childhood Qaysin spent in mountains. He became an orphan and started to work at an early age. In 1926 a school was established in his aul, he started to read and to study Russian. In his 10 he firstly wrote his first poems. After Quli graduated school, he entered a technical college in Nalchik, where he was firstly published in his 17. In 1935 Quli arrived to Moscow and entered GITIS Theater Institute. At the same time he visited lections in Literature Institute, wrote poems. In 1939 he returned to Nalchik, where he lectured literature in the local teacher's training college. In 1940 he published his first collection Hallo, morning!.

In 1940 he was drafted to the Red Army, where he served in paratrooper brigade. In summer of 1941 brigade was moved to Latvian SSR, where Quli met with the Second Wordl War. After battles near Orel he was wounded. In hospital Qaysin Quli wrote many poems that were published in Pravda, Krasnaya Zveda and later he participated in battle of Stalingrad as a military correspondent of Syny Otechestva newspaper. Participating in opretion for the libertions of the Souther cities Qulie was wounded again. During that period (1942-1944) he wrote In a Hour of Trouble, About Someone Who Didn't Return, Perekop cycles of poems.

In 1945 he moved to Kyrgyzstan, where he worked in the local Writers' Union. Quli's poems couldn’t be published, as Balkars were deported during the war. He translated many poems that period. In May 1956 arrived to Moscow, where he published Mountains and The Bread and the Rose collections with the help of N. Tikhonov in 1957. In 1956 Balkars were able to return and Qaysin Quli returned to Nalchik. There he published his collections The Wounded Stone (1964), The Book of the Land (1972), The Evening (1974), The Evening Light (1979), A Beauty of the Earth (1980) and others. Qaysin Quli dead in 1985.