Poet and prose writer K. Adamaliev was born in the village of Kochkorka in the Kochkorka district of the Naryn region in a family of a collective farmer.
In 1965, he graduated from high school in his native village, in 1970 — from the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute (KGMU), and in 1976 — from the graduate school of KGMU. In 1979, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences.
He began his career as a surgeon at the 3rd City Children's Hospital in Frunze and has been working as an assistant at the Department of Pediatric Surgery of KGMU since 1976.
He has been publishing since 1966. In 1971, his collection of short stories "Kandash adamlар" ("People of One Blood") was published. Currently, he is the author of several poetry collections, the novel "Zhurok kagyshyn ulantat" ("The Heart Continues to Beat") (1985), and three collections of short stories.
He has been a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1986.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
In Kyrgyz language
Kandash adamlар: Aцгемелер. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1971. — 15 p. People of One Blood.
Bıyılky yaz menin aylımda: Ырлар жана поэма. — Frunze: Mektep, 1973. — 48 p. This Spring in My Village.
Vrachtyn tuyshugu: Aцгемелер. — Frunze: Mektep, 1977. — 100 p. The Doctor's Concern.
Kechmelik: Aцгемелер. — Frunze: Mektep, 1980. — 124 p. The Wanderer.
Shattyk: Ырлар. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1982. — 76 p. The Price of a Smile.
Zhurek kaguusun ulanta beret: Roman. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1985. — 240 p. The Heart Continues to Beat.
Kardiograma: Ырлар. — Frunze: Mektep, 1987. — 76 p.
