Prose writer and playwright K. Akmatov was born in the village of Bosteri in the Issyk-Kul district of the Issyk-Kul region in a peasant family. In 1958, he graduated from high school in his hometown, and in 1967, he graduated from the journalism department of the philological faculty of KGU. From 1965 to 1966, he was a student at the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the Komsomol in Moscow.
He began his labor biography in 1958 as a worker at the horse-breeding farm No. 54. From 1964, he was involved in Komsomol work — first as an instructor at the Issyk-Kul Regional Committee of the Komsomol of Kyrgyzstan, then as head of the department, and in 1967, he was elected the first secretary of this district Komsomol committee. Since 1972, he has worked as a senior editor, deputy chief editor of the publishing house "Kyrgyzstan," from 1974 to 1983 — as an instructor, head of the sector, deputy head of the department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, and from 1983 to 1986 — as a senior editor of the State Committee for Television and Radio of the Kyrgyz SSR. In 1986, at the VIII Congress of Writers of Kyrgyzstan, K. Akmatov was elected secretary of the board of the Union of Writers of Kyrgyzstan, and at the VIII All-Union Congress of Writers — a member of the board of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
From 1970 to 1972, K. Akmatov served in the ranks of the Soviet Army as a correspondent for the army newspaper. During these years, he actively engaged in literary creativity. In 1974, his first collection of stories "Boz Ulan" ("Youth") was published. A significant work in the writer's oeuvre was the novel "Mezgil" (1979), published in 1982 in Russian under the title "Earthly Time." He is also the author of the collections "Sacred Hearth," "Munabiya," a number of plays, and screenplays for feature films. The novella "Two Lines of Life," published in 1978 in "Roman-Gazeta," was awarded the All-Union Literary Prize named after N. Ostrovsky. In 1988, the second novel by K. Akmatov "Years Around the Sun" was published.
A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1967, a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1974.
Awarded the medal "For Valorous Labor. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin," and Honorary Certificates from the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
In Kyrgyz
Boz Ulan: Stories and a novella. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1974. — 200 p. Youth.
Mezgil: Novel. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1979. — 228 p. Time.
Yiyk Jurt: Stories, novellas. — Fr.: Mektep, 1981. — 184 p. Sacred Hearth.
Munabiya: Stories, novel. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1987. — 320 p. Munabiya.
In Russian
Earthly Time: Novel, novella, stories. — M.: Sov. writer, 1982. — 159 p.
Foolish Ducks: Fables. — Fr.: Mektep, 1987. — 16 p.
