Smagul Yelubay

Life

• 1971 graduated from Kazakh State University;
• 1975 graduated from High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors;
• 1976-1992 worked as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Kazakhfilm;
• 1992-1995 worked as an Editor-in-Chief at Parasat magazine;
• 1995-2004 worked as a journalist at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague, Czech Republic;
• 2008-2010 worked as an Editor-in-Chief at Kazakhfilm;
• From 2010 professor at Kazakh National Academy of Arts.

  Literary works

• «Ойсыл-Қара», Almaty;
• «Саттар соқпағы», Almaty;
• «Жарық дүние», Almaty;
• «На свете белом», Moscow;
• «Ақ боз үй», novel, Almaty, republished several times;
• «Одинокая юрта», Almaty, 1992. The novel trilogy about the famine of 1937 in Kazakhstan and the repressions of 1937, part 2. "Prayer" , part 3. «Mortal coil» ;
• «Молитва», novel, Almaty
• «Бренный мир», novel, Almaty
• «Век страшного суда»
• Lonely Yurt in English published by Kazakh Pen Club in USA, which received the nomination "Book of the week" on Amazon.com in November 2016.
• «Ақ боз үй», collection of works in 2 volumes;
• «Arasat meidany» in Turkish, Ankara, Turkey;
• «Una Yurta Solitaria» in Spanish, Madrid, Spain.

  Filmography

• 1982 — Red Yurt
• 1983 — Atone
• 1983 — House under the loon
• 1991 — Surzhekey - The Angel of Death, Grand-Prize in the Silver Crescent Film Festival, Ashkhabad, Grand-Prize in the Bastau Film Festival, Almaty
• 1992 — Batyr Bayan
• 2004 — Revenge
• 2012 — The Hunter Boy, Best Foreign Drama Award in International Family Film Festival in Hollywood
• 2016 — Diamond sword
• 2016 — Land of Kazakhs
• 2016 — Oasis
• 2018 — «Бала гашыктык»

  Awards

• Order of Kurmet
• PEN Club's Award
• State scholarship in the field of culture,
• By the decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for outstanding achievements in the Kazakh literature and culture, he was awarded the "Order of Parasat"