Sholokhov, M. [Wormhole] Korkoin idelge. Nobel prize laureate printed in Buryat language.

Sholokhov, M. [Wormhole] Korkoin idelge. 

Ulan-Ude: Buriaad-Mongol ulasiin keblel, 1935. 34 pp. 12mo [150x110mm]. In Buryat.        

In original illustrated wrappers; partially uncut. Creased, dusted; corners and edges worn; yellowed. Stables lightly rusted. Overall in good condition.

5000 copies printed.

Very few books in Latinized Buryat can be found nowadays.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) was a Soviet novelist and the winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote Wormhole in 1926 and published it as a part of the Azur Steppe (1926) collection. It was later included in the larger series Tales from the Don (1931).

The translation of Wormhole into Buryat (then: Buryat-Mongolian) came during the post-Latinisation period in Soviet history. During that time most of the indigenous languages shifted from their original scripts into newly-developed Latin-based ones. The Latinized Buryat alphabet was approved in 1930 and was used for nine years afterwards, before being replaced by Cyrillic alphabet that is being used to this day.

We couldn’t trace any copy of this edition in USA or European libraries via OCLC.