Poet N. Jetykashaeva was born in 1918 and passed away on September 9, 1952, in the village of Jilamish, now part of the Sokuluk district of the Kyrgyz SSR, in a family of poor peasants.
In 1933, she graduated from the workers' faculty in Frunze, and in 1941 from GITIS named after A.V. Lunacharsky in Moscow.
She began her labor biography in 1941 as an actress at the Kyrgyz Drama Theater, then worked as a research associate at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences, and served as the director of the Republican House of Folk Art.
N. Jetykashaeva was the first Kyrgyz woman to become a professional poet. She began publishing in 1937. In 1949, her poem "Zhangan zhalyn" ("The Unquenchable Flame") was published, followed by her poetry collection "Zhatyrgan yelkemde" ("In My New Country") in 1951, and in 1958, her book of poems "I Am the Daughter of October" was released.
The main themes of N. Jetykashaeva's work include love for her renewed homeland, the creative labor of collective farmers, and the spiritual optimism of the emerging Kyrgyz intelligentsia. During the Great Patriotic War, she created a number of poems on patriotic themes, and in the post-war years, she wrote works celebrating the heroic labor of the workers of Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1946 and a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1941.
She was awarded the medal "For Valorous Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz
Zhangan zhalyn: Poem. — Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1949. — 59 pages. The Unquenchable Flame.
in Russian
I Am the Daughter of October: Poems. — Frunze: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1958. — 59 pages.
