Untold Will / Невысказанное завещание (на английском языке)

Untold Will / Невысказанное завещание (на английском языке)

Амирхан Еники

Novel, Short Stories, and Naser Prose.

Amirkhan Eniki

Untold Will

Project manager, translation, footnotes, and comments by Gulshat Safiullina

В© Tatarstan Book Publishing Company, 2019

В© Eniki, A. N., Estate and Family of, 2019

В© Safiullina G. R., compilation, translation, 2019

Dr. Gulfiya Gaynullina was born in the village of Izh Bubi, famous for its madrasah that was founded by Badrulbanat and Gabdelgalyam Nigmatullins, and directed by brothers Izh Bubi – Gubaydullah and Gabdullah, whose sister Mukhlisa Bubi was the first and the only female Sharia judge.

In 1991 Golfiya Gaynullina entered the Tatar Philology and History Department of Kazan State University, where later she wrote her PhD thesis on the Tatar Literature of the second half of the 20

century. Her articles focus on the books of Amirkhan Eniki, Ayaz Gylazhev, Mohammat Makhdiev.

Since 1998 she has lectured on Tatar literature at Kazan Federal University.

The Writer who Changed Tatar Imagination

The power of a personality is the possibility to change the melancholic existence and flow of life with one`s thoughts and position. The Tatar lifestyle and Tatar mentality were formed under the influence of Gabdulla Tukay, Dardemend (Zakir Ramiev) and Amirkhan Eniki.

Amirkhan Eniki was born on March, 2 in 1909. His father bought a Qur`an before Amirkhan was born and made a wish that eventually came true: «Let my child who will soon to be born live long and become an educated person». Later the writer himself would say: «…It is not difficult to become an educated man, a scholar, even a writer, but it is very difficult to be a real person. If your talent and will allow you to write, don`t think about fame, think about your reader.

Amirkhan Eniki was a representative of the Tatar intelligentsia, the educated and the enlightened individuals, as all his life he was devoted to such people: В«I saw educated scholars of the past, for instance, Zhamal Validi, Gali Rakhim, Fatikh Amirkhan. Sagyit and Sharif Suncheyler were very close to me. They were very well educated, with exquisite manners and good speech.