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Celebrate Jake’s translation of Akhmet Baitursynov’s 1911 collection, “Mosquito,” with video, guest readings, and books!
Akhmet Baitursynov (1872-1937) was a highly influential Kazakh writer, educator, poet, linguist, and leading member of the Kazakh nationalist group Alash Orda. Today, he is recognized as one of the intellectual forefathers of modern Kazakhstan, and bears the honorific “The Educator.”
Jake Zawlacki is a writer, translator, and scholar. He is also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Mongolia, a Fulbright Alumnus to the Kyrgyz Republic, and a graduate of Stanford University’s Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies Program. He teaches writing at the University of San Diego.