Ethnic Kazakh Writer in China nominated for Prize in Kazakhstan

    Kazakhstan's Institute for Cultural Politics and Culture Studies has nominated Qazhyghumar Shabdanuly, an ethnic Kazakh writer in China's Xinjiang Province, for a Kazakh state literature award, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.     Institute Director Yerlan Sairov told journalists in Almaty today that Shabdanuly deserves the award for his six-volume novel "Qylmys" (Crime).     "The novel...