The Code of the Word: An introduction to the Universal Etymological Dictionary 1001 Words

Olzhas Suleimenov was born in Alma-Ata (currently Almaty), Kazakhstan, in 1936. He graduated Kazakh State University in 1959, and then Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow in 1961. Between 1962 and1971, he actively worked as a journalist, and in 1983, he became the head of the Kazakhstan's Writers Union. He works are written in the Russian language. His most celebrated novel, Az and I, was published in 1975. The novel created a great stir, and was criticized by the literary elite in Russ...