Tanova, Ekaterina Duktug-oolovna

She was born on March 27, 1930 in the town of Kara-Chiraa of the Sut-Kholsky kozhuun of the Tuvan People’s Republic. She graduated from Kyzyl School No. 2, Abakan Teachers Institute (1952), the Department of Journalism of the Higher Party School of the Central Committee of the CPSU , and graduate school of Moscow State University. M. Lomonosov. She taught at the school, was the head teacher, the secretary of the Komsomol committee of the pedagogical school, the head of the department of the Tyvanyn anyyaktary newspaper, an employee of the Tuva radio, the deputy chairman of the radio television committee of the Tuva Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the director of the Tuva Music and Drama Theater, the teacher of the Kyzyl State Pedagogical Institute, the dean of the KPI primary education faculty, the literary employee of the newspapers Tyvanniy anyyaktary, Shyn, Tyva republic ^[1] .

She began her literary work in 1951. The first book, a collection of poems "Trickle" was published in 1964. One of the founders of Tuvan children's literature. Member of the Union of Writers and Journalists of the USSR. Her works have been translated into Russian, Ukrainian, Mongolian, German, Yakut, Altai and other languages. Translated into the Tuvan language works of S. Mikhalkov , S. Marshak , A. Barto , T. Shevchenko ... Translated the novel I. Turgenev's "The Eve." Over 20 books published. She wrote plays. He is the author of more than 10 plays, educational books “Tuva Shkalarnaryn Iyigi Klasinga Nomchulga Nomu” (Book for reading for the 2nd grade of Tuvan schools, 2002), “Tuva tooguzunge Nomchulga Nomu, 3-4 classstars” (Reading book on the history of Tuva for 3 -4 cells, 2004), the monograph "Periodical Press of Tuva (1924-1944). Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR (1961), member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1981.

• Honorary Citizen of Kyzyl
• Honored Writer of Tuva (1990)
• Medal of the Republic of Tyva "For Valiant Labor" (2000)
• Medal "100th Anniversary of the Day of M. A. Sholokhov" (2005)
• National writer of Tuva
• Laureate of the Leonid Chadamba Prize ^[2]

• “Damyrak” (Kyzyl, 1964)
• “Hemchiktıry” (Kyzyl, 1971)
• “Willow in bloom” (Kyzyl, 1974)
• “Herelmaa” (Kyzyl, 1978)
• “Khemchiktiң khnү”, Chogaaldar chyyndyzy, (Kyzyl, 1980)
• “Arbas-Oinu munuvutkash” (Kyzyl, 1983)
• “The Chashtar of Delegation” (Kyzyl, 1989)
• “Tuva Cherge Yurel” (Kyzyl, 2000)
• “Chaynnangan cup shaavys” (Kyzyl, 2000)
• “Iy 2” (Kyzyl, 1967)
• “Akim of Dugayynda toozu” (Kyzyl, 1976)
• “The Periodical Press of Tuva” (Kyzyl, 1979
• Krasnoyarsk, “Offset”, 2006)
• “Yenin Salym-Khuzu” (Kyzyl, 1991)
• “Doshkun Chyldarny Chazy” (1993)
• “Kara-Bai” (Kyzyl, 1993)
• “Shirbiiliy Holdan Salba” (Kyzyl, 1999)
• “Kara-Chiraa Gallery” (Kyzyl, 2000)
• “Tyva Cherge Yurel”, Kyzyl, 2000)
• “The Secret of Flowering Willow” (Kyzyl, 2003)
• “Alphabetite үzhүkterni adapt, nomchup өөreniili”, (Kyzyl, 2006).

• Writers of Eastern Siberia: Biobibliogr. will indicate. - Yakutsk: Book. Publishing House, 1978. - 420 p. - S. 184-185. - Circulation of 3,000 copies.