On an Important Author of Tuvan Literature Oleg Karlamovich Sagan-Ool and His Story Ujurajıışkın ‘Meeting’

Abstract

Oleg Karlamovich Sagan-ool, one of the founders of the contemporary Tuvan literature that developed after the 1930's, attracted attention with his versatile personality and many new themes he brought to literature. The writer, who took an important step into the world of literature with his first poetry book published in 1938, became one of the literary writers who marked the golden age with his writing of stories, novels, plays and screenplays. He also had literary translations from Russian authors. The descriptions in the works of the author, who conveyed the events of his period, the current situation of the society, the difficulties experienced by the people, the moods of the heroes in his impressive style, also reveal the author's mastery. In this article, Oleg Karlamovich Sagan-ool's life and literary personality, his works, his bringing innovation to literature, information on topics such as artistic activities will be given, and also the author's first example of the kinds of stories published in 1941, called Ujurajıışkın "Meeting" will be translated and a brief review of the story will be included. In the story, the events, moods and fates of the characters that the hero encounters during his journeys begging or hunting are told. What the characters have in common with the hero of the story is that they live a hard life and seek a good life. The author wrote all these encounters in his impressive style.