Ille Toktash


Ille Toktash was a Chuvash writer and poet. He was a USSR Union of Writers member.

Biography

Ille Toktash was born 29 July 1907 in the village Bolshiye Toktashi.
He graduated from Alikovo middle school.
Ille Toktash participated as a reporter in World War II between 1942 and 1944.
He was the author of the collections Verses and The Wind of the October, as well as short stories and essays. His novella Bull Ravine dealt with the collectivization of the Chuvash village. Tuktash translated into Chuvash The Tale of Igor's Campaign, M. A. Sholokhov's The Quiet Don, and the short stories of M. Gorky. He is also known as a compiler of Chuvash folklore.
Ille Toktash died 20 January 1957 in Cheboksary.

Creative activity

Ilya Tuktash created in a genre of lyrical poetry. Its products "Shur кăвакарчăн", "Ӳс, ҫӗршыв, хăватлан", "Тăван ҫӗршыв" are entered by gold threads in a treasury of the Chuvash literature. The song written by composer Grigory Lebedev on verses of Ilya Tuktasha "Тăван ҫӗршыв" became a hymn of the Chuvash Republic.
From under Ilya Tuktash's feather there were stories also. The master has reached successes in literary transfers: has translated into the Chuvash language some chapters of novels of M.Sholokhov "Newly plowed virgin soil", "Quiet Don", M.Gorkogo's products «the Girl and death», «the Song about a falcon», V.Shakespeare's sonnets, A.Navoi, V.Lebedev-Kumach bunting, S.Alymov's verses.
He did much work on collecting folklore. The material of oral national creativity prepared by Ilya Semenovichem was issued in its work «Чăваш фольклорĕ», published in 1941, 1949.

Famous works