Rollan Seisenbayev

Rollan Seisenbayev is Kazakhstan's most celebrated and honored author. He played a prominent role in the emergence of Kazakh independence in the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union and was a personal advisor to President Nazarbayev in the crucial early years of the 1990s. He is the author of The Return of Kazybek , Throne of Satan , and The Day the World Collapsed . Considered the founding novel of independent Kazakhstan, where it has sold over a million copies, The Dead Wander in the...See more

Rollan Seisenbayev is Kazakhstan's most celebrated and honored author. He played a prominent role in the emergence of Kazakh independence in the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union and was a personal advisor to President Nazarbayev in the crucial early years of the 1990s. He is the author of The Return of Kazybek , Throne of Satan , and The Day the World Collapsed . Considered the founding novel of independent Kazakhstan, where it has sold over a million copies, The Dead Wander in the Desert marks the author's English-language debut. See less