Serikzat Duysengazy

Serikzat Duysengazy is a poet, a performer of traditional oral poetry, a scholar, a translator, and a cultural figure. He translated the famous musical "Notre Dame de Paris" into Kazakh, paving the way for this work to be staged on the Kazakh stage and making a significant contribution to promoting national culture at the international level.

Serikzat Duysengazy was born on December 8, 1974, in the Tarbagatai village of the Ayagoz district in the Abai region. He graduated from the "Oktaybr" secondary school in Tarbagatai village in 1992. In 1997, he completed his bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Philology of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and obtained a master's degree in literary studies from the same university in 1999.

In his career, he served as the deputy director and director of the Students' Club of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (1999–2001), and as the deputy director of the Students' Palace named after O. Zholdasbekov (2001–2002). Currently, he is the dean of the Faculty of Philology at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University.

In 2008, he won the second place in the republican poetry competition "One Poem – One World," organized jointly by the "Kazakhstan" national television channel, "Kazakh Radio," and the "Kazakh Literature" newspaper. In 2012, he took first place in the poetry competition dedicated to the City Day of Astana.

In the academic field, he has published dozens of scientific articles, monographs, and textbooks in international and national publications. In the art of oral poetry, he has won several grand prizes in republican competitions and has promoted Kazakh oral poetry abroad. He is the author of several poetry collections in written poetry and a prizewinner of republican poetry competitions.

Songs written to the poems of the poet are performed by "MuzART," the "Zhegitter" group, Makpal Junisova, and other famous singers. His creative evenings have been broadcast on national television channels. His poems have been included in anthologies of young poets and published in the magazines "Zhalyn," "Parasat," and the newspapers "Kazakh Literature" and "Zhas Kazakh."