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Aron Atabek
Kazakh poet, journalist and politician (1953-2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aron Qabyşūly Edigeev (born Aron Qabyşūly Nutuşev, Kazakh: Арон Қабышұлы Едігеев, Нутушев; 31 January 1953 – 24 November 2021), better known as Aron Atabek (Kazakh: Арон Атабек), was a Kazakh writer, poet and dissident.[1]
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Leader of the Alash National Freedom Party | |
In office April 1990 – 24 November 2021 | |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
Personal details | |
Born | Aron Qabyşūly Nutuşev (1953-01-31)31 January 1953 Naryn Khuduk, Kalmyk ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Died | 24 November 2021(2021-11-24) (aged 68) Almaty, Kazakhstan |
Nationality | Kazakh |
Political party | Alash |
Children | Alma Nutusheva |
Alma mater | Kazakh State University Leningrad State University |
Profession | Poet, author, journalist, political activist |
He was a leader of an independent Alash National Freedom Party, and the president of the political council of the Kazak Memleketi, the Kazakhstan National Front.[2] After Kazakhstan gained its independence in 1991 upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he was a critic of the government and President Nursultan Nazarbayev.[3] He was an author of several poems and a book critical of the Kazakh government, for which he was imprisoned for fifteen years. He was released in October 2021, and died a month later on 24 November, while being treated in a hospital in Almaty for COVID-19.[4]