Tologon Kasymbekov

Tölögön Kasymbekov (Төлөгөн Касымбеков) (also transliterated from Russian as Tolegen Kassymbekov ) (15 January 1931 - 16 June 2011) was a Kyrgyz author who mostly wrote historical novels.

Life
He was born in the village of Akjol in the family of a collective farmer.

In 1952, while he was still a student, his work "Little Horseman" was published for the first time in the journal "Soviet Kyrgyzstan". The short story "I want to be a man" was published in Russian in 1965.

His first longer work, the historical novel "The Broken Sword" is also his most well known. It was first published in journals, being completed in 1966, and published in book form in 1971. It was translated into English by David Foreman and Sergei Sosinsky and published in 1980.

Novels

 * The Broken Sword ("Сынган кылыч", 1966, 1971)
 * Mature Age ("Жетилген Курак", 1976)
 * Welfare ("Келкел", 1986)
 * Invasion ("Баскын", 2000)
 * Massacre ("Кыргын", 2004)
 * Khan Ormon (2005) (Historical novel about Ormon Khan)