Selected poems

by Musa Cälil

The poems in this book were written by the Tartar poet, Hero of the Soviet Union and winner of the Lenin Prize, Mussa Jalil. In 1944 he fell at the hands of his fascist executioners in Moabit Prison in Berlin.

Mussa Jalil never kept a diary. He wrote poems instead. Every poem was a reaction to an event in his life. His poems are full of love for his wonderful country, and hatred for its foes, [...]

Contents

Foreword, Poetry of Truth and Passion (Raphael Mustafin)

Selected Lyrics

208 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1981

About the author

Musa Cälil was a Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter. He is the only poet of the Soviet Union who was simultaneously awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award for his resistance fighting, and the Lenin Prize for authoring The Moabit Notebooks; both the awards were awarded to him posthumously.