Yuvan Nikolayevich Shestalov russian: Юван Николаевич Шесталов;(1937-2011) was a
Mansi
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People
* Mansi people, an indigenous people living in Tyumen Oblast, Russia
** Mansi language
* Giovanni Domenico Mansi (1692–1769), Italian theologian, scholar, historian and archbishop
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writer from
Russia
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Life and work
Shestalov was born 22 June 1937 in Kamratka village,
Beryozovsky District, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
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Shestalov is arguably the best known author in the
Mansi language
The Mansi languages are spoken by the Mansi people in Russia along the Ob River and its tributaries, in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and Sverdlovsk Oblast. Traditionally considered a single language, they constitute a branch of the Ural ...
although he mostly wrote in
Russian
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. His work in Mansi and Russian has been widely translated and he worked actively to preserve his native language and culture. He also became a laureate of several Soviet and Russian literary prizes.
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The first poetic book by Yu. Shestalov in the Mansi language "Makem At" ("Breath of the Earth") was published in 1958 in Tyumen
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. The first really successful work was "The Pagan Poem" (1971), in which the author tried to translate into the language of poetry the ritual culture of his people with its actions and multi-layered spiritual content.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union
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in 1991, he converted to shamanism
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Shestalov died on 5 November 2011, aged 75.
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1937 births
2011 deaths
Mansi people
Russian writers
Soviet writers
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