Jangar, The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads, trans. by Saglar Bougdaeva, forthcoming in January 2023.

"... When the first translation, into #Russian, finally appeared, #Stalin had the entire #Kalmyk population deported to #Siberia & ordered that their national literature be eliminated from the published world"

#EurasianSteppe #Nomads #Mongols #OralLiterature

🙏 Cover & excerpt of this landmark English translation of #Jangar, courtesy University of California Press:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344723/jangar