The week of the children’s book continued with the meeting “Gashyk kozben karadym gul onirge …” on the work of our fellow countryman, Honorary Citizen of the Aktogay region, an outstanding Kazakh poet, writer – Zhenis Kashkynov. This year marks the author’s 80th birthday.
Schoolchildren of the city came to the meeting, Zhenis Kashkynov’s sister Sarah Kashkynova and nephew Yernat Melsuly became special guests.
The guests recalled interesting facts from the life of their famous relative, showed Zhenis’ personal items, children asked questions about the poet’s work and books, Zh. Kashkynov’s poems and excerpts from his poem “Agybay Batyr” were heard.
Words-memoirs were heard from the lips of the editor-in-chief of the republican socio-literary magazine “Kasym” S. Sagintai, the head of the office “Rukhani zhangyru”, akyn, aitysker Aitbay Zhumagul.
At the end of the evening, Yernat Melsuly presented his book “Agylshynsha til syndyru” to the library.