Critic, literary scholar X. Bapaev was born in the village of Alim-Tep in the Karasuu district of the Osh region into a peasant family.
In 1945, he graduated from the seven-year school in his native village, in 1948 — from the pedagogical college in Osh, in 1953 — from the philological faculty of KGU, and in 1962 — from the graduate school of KGU. He earned a Candidate of Philological Sciences degree in 1963.
He began his career in 1953 as a teacher at the pedagogical college named after J. Bokonbaev in Osh.
From 1954, he served as the director of the secondary school named after I. M. Sverdlov in the Alaï district of the Osh region, from 1962 — as a senior lecturer at the Department of Kyrgyz Literature at KGU, from 1966 to 1980 — as a senior researcher at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR, and from 1982 to 1985, he was a correspondent for the newspaper "Kyrgyzstan Madeniyati."
He has been publishing since 1960. X. Bapaev is the author of several monographs, collections of literary-critical articles, and literary studies that address the issues of interconnections between national literatures, as well as research concerning the development of the satire genre in Kyrgyz Soviet literature.
He has been a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1958 and a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1982.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz language
Kyrgyz Satire. — Fr.: Mektep, 1967. — 88 p. Kyrgyz satire.
The Nature of Kyrgyz Satire. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1971. — 144 p. The nature of Kyrgyz satire.
The Secrets of Fable. — Fr.: Mektep, 1974. — 122 p. The secrets of fable.
Kyrgyz-Kazakh, Kyrgyz-Uzbek Literary Connections. — Fr.: Ilim, 1975. — 159 p.
Kyrgyz-Kazakh and Kyrgyz-Uzbek literary connections.
Some Issues of Kyrgyz Satire: Literary-Critical Articles. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1981. — 132 p. Some issues of Kyrgyz satire.
The Struggle for Peace and Its Reflection in Kyrgyz Soviet Literature. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1985. — 12 p.
The struggle for peace and its reflection in Kyrgyz Soviet literature.
