Näqi İsänbät

Näqi İsänbät (Tatar: Нәкый Исәнбәт, IPA: [næˈqi isænˈbæt]; Russian: Наки Исанбет, romanized: Naki Isanbet; December 29, 1899 – September 12, 1992), also anglicized as Nakie Isanbet, was a Tatar-language writer, encyclopaedist, poet, playwright, prosaist, children's writer, specialist in folklore, and philologist.

Born Näqi Siracetdin ulı Zakirov (Tatar: Нәкый Сираҗетдин улы Закиров) or Naki Sirazetdinovich Zakirov (Russian: Наки Сиразетдинович Закиров) into a family of a village mullah in the village Maloyaz in the Republic of Bashkortostan.

His plays (Hoja Nasreddin, Zifa, Briefcase, Musa Cälil, Fugitives) always were in the repertoires of the Tatar theatres.

A unique edition of Tatar national proverbs in three volumes has been awarded the Ğabdulla Tuqay State Prize.

Näqi İsänbät introduced into cultural turn a heroic epos of the Tatar people - (dastan) İdegäy, first published in 1940.