A readers conference dedicated to a famous Kazakh writer Ilyas Yessenberlin was held at S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University under the auspices of UNESCO.

Activists of Birlik Student Assembly, the academic staff and employees of the Scientific Library named after S. Beisembayev had a discussion on the life and milestones in the work of Ilyas Yessenberlin. 

“The objective of the conference was dictated by a number of factors. First of all, we aimed to draw a parallel between the works of President N. A. Nazarbayev and the literary heritage of I. Yessenberlin. It is obvious that great love for the motherland makes them to a large extent similar. They appeal to the national feeling of a reader; again and again they mention that the strength of the nation, which has justifiably inherited the distinctive and advanced culture of Turks, the people of the Great Steppe, lies in its cohesion,” said the chairman of Birlik Student Assembly Ramil Smailov. 

Ilyas Yessenberlin is seen as one of the most important writers in Kazakh history and literature, he is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, a dramatist, a poet and a script writer. The anniversary of I. Yessenberlin is being celebrated under the auspices of UNESCO, which once again proves the writer’s authority for the world literary process.

In 2015 a trilogy “Nomads” by I. Yessenberlin was recognized as a best book of the year under the republican campaign “One country, one book” initiated by the National Academic Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 

“It is a momentous coincidence that the 100th anniversary of I. Yessenberlin and the 550th anniversary of the Kazakh khanate are being celebrated in the same year. Ilyas Yessenberlin is a meritorious master of Kazakh prose and dramaturgy. His talent and diligence prove that the history of nomads takes a rightful place in the cultural heritage of mankind,” said the librarian of the belles-lettres and Library of Peoples of Kazakhstan sectors Yelena Likhanova.