Sayakbay Karalaev | |
Birth Date: | 1894 |
Birth Place: | Ak-Ölöng, Semirechye Oblast, Governor-Generalship of the Steppes, Russian Empire |
Death Date: | May 7, 1971 (aged 76-77) |
Death Place: | Frunze, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union |
Occupation: | Poet |
Sayakbay Karalaev (ky|Саякбай Каралаев; 1894 – 7 May 1971) was a Soviet and Kyrgyz storyteller and manaschi - a reciter of the epic Kyrgyz poem Manas.
A French translation of his recitation of the epic Er Töshtük was published in 1965.[1]