Ğabdulla Tuqay

Tatar poet.

Born April 26th, 1886 in Quşlawıç.

Died April 15th, 1913 at 26 years old in Klyachkin clinics (tuberculosis).

Occupations
literary critic, opinion journalist, poet, translator, writer

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel