Week dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Abish Kekilbayev

From December 2 to 6, 2019, the Department of Kazakh Language and Literature named after Academician S.Kirabaev of the Institute of Philology and Multilingual Education organized and held a Week dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the national writer, laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Hero of Labor of Kazakhstan, well-known statesman and public figure Abish Kekilbaev.

As part of the action, literary master classes were held: senior teacher Alpysbay Tamaev - «National Liberation Idea in the novels «Urker» and «Elen-Alan», senior teacher Aizat Ibraeva -«A. Kekilbaev`s Creative Laboratory», senior teacher Gulnaz Tokshylykova - «The problems of the novel «Kuy» by A. Kekilbaev» and associate professor Serik Asylbekuly - «Lyrics of the poetry of A. Kekilbaev».

On the last day of the Week, a round table «A. Kekilbaev - thinker-artist, writer, publicist, activist» was held. During the meeting, academician Baktiyar Smanov, professor Zhanalyk Baltabaeva, associate professors Serik Asylbekuly and Bidana Kabatay, senior lecturer Alpysbai Tamaev shared their views on the work of a prominent writer who made a great contribution to the development of modern Kazakh literature. Doctoral students, undergraduates and students of the institute attended the round table.