Tölögön Kasymbek (Kyrgyz: Төлөгөн Касымбек) (also, Kasymbekov, also transliterated from Russian as Tolegen Kassymbekov[3]) (15 January 1931[4] – 16 June 2011) was a Kyrgyz author who mostly wrote historical novels.

[5] In 1952, while he was still a student,[4] he published his fist work "Little Horseman" in the journal "Soviet Kyrgyzstan".

[6] The short story "I want to be a man" was published in Russian in 1965.

[7] His first longer work, the historical novel "The Broken Sword"[8] is also his most well known.

It was translated into English by David Foreman and Sergei Sosinsky and published in 1980.