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| name        = Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov
| image       = Kanapianov1.jpg
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| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1951|10|04|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kokshetau]], [[Kazakhstan]]
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| occupation  = Poet, writer
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'''Bakhytzhan Musakhanuli Kanapyanov''' ({{lang-kz|'''Бақытжан Мусаханұлы Қанапиянов'''}}; {{lang-ru|'''Бахытжан Мусаханович Канапьянов'''}}) (October 4, 1951) is a [[Kazakhstan]]i poet and writer.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mawar Emas |last=Pogadaev |first=Victor |pages=240–246 |year=2009 |language=Malay |publisher=Institut Terjemahan Negara Malaysia |isbn=978-983-068-350-8 }}</ref>

Kanapyanov is a poet and a lyricist. He was born in [[Kokshetau]], a [[descendant of Genghis Khan]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Central Asia: a chessboard and player in the new great game |last=Mullerson |first=R. A. |page=30 |year=2007 |publisher=[[Kegan Paul]] |isbn=978-0-7103-1316-4 }}</ref> He was a winner of the Kazakhstan's [[boxing]] cup for two consecutive years  (1968&ndash;1969). Liquidator of [[Chernobyl disaster]]. Member of the Russian and the Kazakh [[PEN club]]s.

Kanapyanov writes in Kazakh and Russian and is widely recognised for multicultural approach. Kanapyanov collected folk songs from across Kazakhstan and translated them into Russian, often revising and adopting them. One of the most famous translation – is the Kazakh national epic song [[Kyz-Zhibek]]. His translations into Russian include Turkish poet [[Nazim Hikmet]], French poet [[Paul Valéry]] and others.

Among Kazakh poets translated and adopted by Bakhytzhan are [[Abay Qunanbayuli]], [[Jambyl Jabayev]], [[Kenen Azerbayev]], [[Shakarim Qudayberdiuli]], [[Magjan Jumabayev]] and others.

In 1984 he became the editor-in-chief of one of the largest publishing house in Kazakhstan [[Zhalyn]]. He kept this position until the year 1991 when the [[USSR]], [[communist party]] and all censoring mechanisms collapsed. This allowed him to founder first independent publishing house in Kazakhstan – [[Zhibek Zholy]] ([[Silk Road]]). Now Zhibek Zholy is famous for its ongoing support to young authors and especially poets in Kazakhstan, Russia and worldwide. Zhibek Zholy publishes a lot on education, folklore, philosophy, linguistics and history studies.

Bakhytzhan was an active member of [[Nuclear disarmament]] movement and together with [[Olzhas Suleimenov]] was one of the founders of "[[Anti-nuclear movement in Kazakhstan|Nevada-Semei]]" movement which ultimate aim was to close the nuclear test centers in [[Semipalatinsk Test Site|Semipalatinsk]] and [[Nevada Test Site|Nevada]]. He was a volunteers in [[Chernobyl]] trying to raise worldwide awareness of the [[Tragedy (event)|tragedy]] - Chernobyl disaster. These efforts resulted in a book of verses "[[Stork on the Pripyat River]]" later translated in many languages.

Kanapyanov's books were translated in more than 20 languages, including English, Finnish, Georgian, German, Korean, Polish, Malay, Yakut.

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[[Category:1951 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Kokshetau]]
[[Category:Translators from Kazakh]]
[[Category:Translators to Russian]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani poets]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani translators]]



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