Bakhytzhan Musakhanuli Kanapyanov (Kazakh: Бақытжан Мусаханұлы Қанапиянов, Baqytjan Musahanūly Qanapiianov; Russian: Бахытжан Мусаханович Канапьянов; born October 4, 1951) is a Kazakhstani poet,[2] writer, publisher, translator.
Member of the Russian and the Kazakh PEN clubs, an honorary professor at the Shakarima University (Semipalatinsk) and an academician of the Crimean Literary Academy (Simferopol, Crimea).
[4] Kanapyanov worked as a research engineer at the Institute of Metallurgy of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, and also as a screenwriter, director and editor in the film studios "Kazakhfilm" and "Mosfilm", produced in Kazakhstan.
He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, which have been printed by Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Ukraine, the United States, Great Britain, Malaysia, Poland, France, Mongolia, Serbia,[6] Bosnia and Herzegovina,[7] Croatia and Turkey.
Among Kazakh poets translated and adopted by Kanapyanov are Abay Qunanbayuli, Jambyl Jabayev, Kenen Azerbayev, Shakarim Qudayberdiuli, Magzhan Zhumabayev.
His books were translated in more than 20 languages, including English, Finnish, Georgian, German, Korean, Polish, Malay, Yakut, Serbian,[9] Croatian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Belarusian[10] and Ukrainian.