Amirkhan Yeniki

Əmirxan Yeniki
Әмирхан Еники Амирхан Еники
Born	Əmirxan Niğmətcan ulı Yeniki (Yenikiev) 2 March 1909 Ufa Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	16 February 2000 (aged 90) Kazan, Tatarstan
Other names	Emirhan Yeniki (Turkish spelling)

Amirkhan Yeniki (Russian: Амирхан Нигметзянович Еники / Еникеев, lit. 'Amirkhan Nigmetzyanovich Yeniki / Yenikeev', Tatar: Әмирхан Нигъмәтҗан улы Еники / Еникиев, romanized: Əmirxan Niğmətcan ulı Yeniki / Yenikiev; 2 March 1909, Ufa Governorate – 16 February 2000, Kazan) was a Tatar poet and author, one of the "important names of modern Tatar storytelling", who received the literary state prize of Tatarstan. Yeniki also worked as a translator of authors such as Gogol, Ostrovski and Aitmatov.^[1][2]