Biography: Born on June 10, 1945, in the village of Kosuyenki, Zhanakorgan District, Kyzylorda Region, Kazakh SSR. Kazakh writer, playwright, and screenwriter. In 1968, he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Kyzylorda Pedagogical Institute named after N. V. Gogol, and in 1980 — from the Higher Literary Courses at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. He is the author of about ten books published in the Kazakh language and has also written works in the genre of drama.