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Mirgul Kali

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Mirgul Kali

Kazakhstan United States
Mirgul Kali translates from her native Kazakh. Her translations of short stories by classic and contemporary Kazakh writers have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Electric Literature, Exchanges, The Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast, and other publications....
She received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and a PEN Translates award for her translation of Baqytgul Sarmekova’s To Hell with Poets, a short story collection published by Tilted Axis Press in March 2024. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow.
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Articles by Mirgul Kali

Collection of pearl necklaces on a black background
Photo by Brian Wangenheim on Unsplash
Shakharbanu’s Curse
By Lira Konys
Jealousy and a broken heart haunt a family heirloom in this story by Kazakh writer Lira Konys.
Translated from Kazakh by Mirgul Kali