My favorite Kazakh writers

Abai was a great Kazakh poet, musician and writer. He was born in Abai settlement near the city of Semei. He was a well - known Kazakh poet, a great thinker, composer, philosopher, the founder of written Kazakh literature, and its first classic. His father Kunanbai was very strict. But his mother Ulzhan and grandmother Zere were kind, warm-hearted and good-natured people. They were good story-tellers, too. They told little Abai a lot of interesting stories, tales and legends of Kazakh people.