Sardana Oyunskaya
Sardana Platonovna Oyunskaya ( sah, Сардана Платоновна Ойунская) (September 6, 1934 – July 13, 2007) was a Yakuts, Yakut folklorist, literary critic, and philologist. Oyunskaya was born in Moscow, the daughter of Platon Oyunsky. A graduate of Yakutsk State University, she began working at the Institute of Language, Literature and History in 1962. She authored a monograph on Yakut folk riddles, and co-authored publications on Yakut fairy tales and folk songs; she published numerous other works on Yakut folklore, Yakut language, language, and literature as well. Later in life she began to publish memoirs about her father and his associates; a book of her recollections of him was published in 1999, and republished in 2003. References

{{authority control 1934 births 2007 deaths Yakut people Russian folklorists Russian literary critics Russian philologists Russian women folklorists Russian women literary critics Women philologists 20th-century Russian ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]