Literary and artistic project "Property of the Soul"

Dear friends!

Within the framework of the republican action "One country - one book", the National Academic Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan proposed to read 30 books for the 30th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2021. One of the selected books was a collection of poems by our fellow countryman - Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov “The wealth of the soul”.

Bakhytzhan Musakhanovich Kanapyanov - Kazakh poet, writer, translator, screenwriter, film director, Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of literature and art (2020), Honored Worker of Kazakhstan, Member of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan, member of the Board of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan, member of the Kazakh and Russian PEN- clubs, member of the Board of the European Congress of Writers (Prague), where he represents the literature of Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Academician of the Crimean Literary Academy, editor-in-chief of the literary almanacs "Literary Asia" and "Literary Alma-Ata", member of the Union of Cinematographers of the CIS and Baltic States, in different years was elected secretary of the board of the Union of Cinematographers of Kazakhstan, vice-president of the Association of Book Publishers and Book Distributors of Kazakhstan.

The Regional Library named after S. Toraigyrov, together with the Children's Art School of Pavlodar - the UNESCO Club, is launching a new literary and artistic project “The Property of the Soul”. And today we want to present to your attention the first work of the pupil of the art school - Malikova Fainna. Fainna is 13 years old, she studies at secondary school-gymnasium №9 in Pavlodar. She drew an illustration for B. Kanapyanov's poem "The clouds are floating."