On November 23, 2020, on the ZOOM platform, within the framework of the project: professor hour ", the famous philologist and translator of Kazakhstan Aslan Zhaksylykov delivered his lecture. The lecture was devoted to topical issues of modern literature in Kazakhstan. Aslan Zhaksylykov told about the stages of Kazakhstani literature development and the peculiarities of translating Kazakh prose into Russian. Asalan Zhaksylykov made a great emphasis on the literary work: "The Clay Book" by Olzhas Suleimenov, which revolutionized the literary world of Kazakhstan. Aslan Zhaksylykov identified several types of discourse in modern Kazakhstani literature: ecological discourse, village discourse, postmodern discourse, urban discourse. He described in detail the problems that are touched upon in each discourse. During his lecture, Aslan Zhaksylykov analyzed several literary works of Kazakhstani writers devoted to the problems of the Holodomor, the Aral Sea and the nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk.
Aslan Zhaksylykov shared his creative plans with the audience and spoke about the perspectives for the Kazakhstani literature development.

At the end of the lecture the teachers and students of the faculty of philology and world languages expressed the words of gratitude to the lecturer for his interesting and informative lecture.