TRANSLATOR’S LABORATORY OR TRANSLATION HISTORY OF M. ZHUMABAYEV’S POETRY INTO ENGLISH

The article considers and presents to the domestic scientific community and the general readerthe translation experience of Professor Timur Kocaoglu, who first translated the poetry of the Kazakh poetMagzhan Zhumabayev into English. Among the works of national literature, gradually translated from Russianinto world languages so far, this is one of the few works translated directly from the Kazakh language, whichhas not yet received wide recognition. We can say that this is a breakthrough and important step in the directionof Magzhan studies, Kazakh translation studies and literature. That is why the aim of the study is to perform thepoetic translation experience of a polyglot translator who spent more than a half century to render Magzhan’spoetry in English. For this purpose, an interview was conducted based on open questions with T. Kocaogluwhich solve the following tasks: to determine the background of the translation of Magzhan’s poetry by thetranslator; to form a holistic picture of the translation process itself; to draw conclusions that will lead todeeper understanding of the nature of a poetic translation. Any translator faces linguistic, aesthetic and socioculturalproblems in literary translation. In particular, poetic translation requires a perfect language training,abilities and talent from the translator. Knowledge and study of the difficulties of a translation, special trainingand translation strategies, principles and solutions in the process of translating Magzhan’s poetry, the masterof words, into English is an invaluable resource for the emerging national society of translators. The firsttranslations published in 1993 were discussed.