Translator and prose writer Sh. Abdyldaev was born on May 12, 1937, in the village of Beishike, Kemin District, Kyrgyz SSR, in a peasant family.
In 1955, he graduated from Kichi-Kemin Secondary School, and in 1961, from the philological faculty of KSU. He began his labor biography as a worker at the M. V. Frunze Agricultural Engineering Plant.
Since 1961, he worked as an editor, senior editor, and deputy chief editor at the Main Editorial Office of the State Committee of Television and Radio of the Kyrgyz SSR, from 1969 as a senior editor of the department of translated fiction at the "Kyrgyzstan" publishing house, from 1972 as a senior editor and later as the head of the State Publishing Committee of the Kyrgyz SSR, from 1983 as the director of the Kyrgyz branch of the Literary Fund of the USSR, and from 1985 as the head of the department at the magazine "Ala-Too".
He began his creative biography as a poet. In 1958, poems were published in the collective collection "Zhalyn" ("Flame"). He is the author of several short stories and novellas. The writer mainly engages in literary translation. He has translated works by W. Shakespeare, G. Lorca, G. Markov, A. Upit, V. Bolshakov, and others into Kyrgyz.
A member of the CPSU since 1966, a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1975.
He has the badge "Excellence in Soviet Printing".
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
In Kyrgyz Language
Biyiktegi zhyldyzdar: Povest zhane atgemeler.— Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1970,— 118 p. Distant Stars.
TRANSLATIONS
Upit A. Romantik: Stories. — Fr.: Mektep, 1972. — 184 p.
Markov G. M. Siberia: Novel. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1975. — 400 p.
Markov G. M. Siberia: Novel. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1976. — 257 p.
Kozak Ya- Saint Michael: Novel. — Fr.: Mektep, 1980. — 220 p.
Markov G. M. Father and Son: Novel. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1984. — 360 p.
Baruzdin S. Tonya from Semenovka: Short Stories and Tales. — Fr.: Mektep, 1985.— 220 p.
Markov G. M. To the Coming Century: Novel. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1986. —320 p.
