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94:(USA, Zephyr Press, 2019, original and English transl.). According to reviews of her poetry, critics noted "Tazhi’s poems have been widely praised as a fresh new voice and for blazing a new direction among the youngest generation of Kazakh poets" and "In Aigerim Tazhi’s poetry, we may find the marvelous that drew us to poetry to begin with".
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Tazhi has received multiple international literary prizes. She won the
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