Ille Tuktash
BornIlya Semyonov
(1907-07-29)29 July 1907
Bolshiye Toktashi village, Russian Empire
Died20 January 1957(1957-01-20) (aged 49)
Cheboksary, Chuvashia, USSR
Occupation
  • Writer
  • poet
  • folklorist
LanguageChuvash, Russian
NationalityChuvash
Period1932–1957
Notable worksVerses (1930)
First victory (1932)

Ille Tuktash (Chuvash: Илле Тукташ; 1907–1957), also Ilya Tuktash (Russian: Илья Семёнович Тукташ), was a Chuvash writer and poet. He was a member of the USSR Union of Writers.[1]

Early life

Ille Tuktash was born Ilya Semyonovich Semyonov (Илья Семёнович Семёнов) on 29 July 1907 in the village of Bolshiye Toktashi, in the Alikovsky District of the Chuvash Republic. He graduated from Alikovo Middle School.

Career

He was a reporter between 1942 and 1944.

He was the author of the collections Verses (1930) and The Wind of the October (1932), as well as short stories and essays. His novella Bull Ravine (1932) dealt with the collectivization of Chuvash villages. Tuktash translated into Chuvash The Tale of Igor's Campaign (with I. Ivnik), M. A. Sholokhov's The Quiet Don (book 1), and the short stories of M. Gorky. He is known as a compiler of Chuvash folklore.

Ille died on 20 January 1957 in Cheboksary.

Tuktash created a genre of lyrical poetry including "Grow, motherland, get stronger" (Chuvash: Ӳс, ҫӗршыв, хӑватлан, romanized: Üs, sjörskyv, håvatlan), "White Pidgeon" (Шурӑ кӑвакарчӑн, Skurå kåvakartjån), and "Oh Motherland" (Тӑван ҫӗршыв, Tåvan sjörskyv).

Works

  • «Сӑвӑсем» – Verses (1930)
  • «Пӗрремӗш ҫӗнтерӳ» – First victory (1932)
  • «Октябрь» – October
  • «Вӑкӑр ҫырми» – Bull's ravine (1933)
  • «Чечек ҫыххи» – Bunch of flowers (1939)
  • «Павел Лаптев» – Pavel Laptev (1944)
  • «Ҫӗр хуҫисем» – Terra owners (1954)
  • «Сӑвӑсемпе юрӑсем» – Verses and Songs (1958).

Literature

  • Iur’ev, M. Pisateli sovetskoi Chuvashii. Cheboksary, 1975.
  • Efimov L. I., "Элӗк Енӗ" (Alikovo District), Alikovo, 1994.
  • "Аликовская энциклопедия", editing: Efimov L. I., Efimov E. L., Anan'ev A. A., Terernt'ev G. K., Cheboksary, 2009, ISBN 978-5-7670-1630-3.
  • "Чӑваш литературин антологийӗ", editing: Gordeev D. V., Silem J. A. Cheboksary, 2003. ISBN 5-7670-1279-2 .

References

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