Literary scholar, prose writer, playwright, poet M. Borbugulov was born on May 5, 1930, in the village of Kyz-Köl, Suzak district, Osh region, in a peasant family of modest means. From 1946, he studied at the Jalal-Abad Pedagogical School, from 1947 at the Teacher Training Institute, and in 1949 he transferred to the second year of the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute in Frunze. In 1952, he entered the graduate school of the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Since 1957, he has been a candidate of sciences, and since 1967, a doctor of philological sciences.
He began his working biography as a primary school teacher in his native village. In 1955, he was accepted as a junior research fellow at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Kyrgyz SSR, and from 1957, he worked for a time as the head of a department at the editorial office of the magazine "Ala-Too." From 1957, he was an associate professor in the Department of Kyrgyz Literature, and since 1969, he has been the head of the Department of Journalism at KGU.
From 1964 to 1966, he was a doctoral student at the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, and since 1967, he has been a professor and head of the Department of Literature of the Peoples of the USSR at KGU named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. In 1988, he was elected chief editor of the State Committee for Publishing of the Kyrgyz SSR.
His literary activity began in 1946. In 1955, he published a collection titled "Tamsilder jana yrlard" ("Poems and Fables"). He is the author of several collections of novellas and short stories, fables, satirical poems, feuilletons, the novel "Eletik jigit" ("The Young Man from the Remote Village"), and plays such as "Barpy," "Who Has Seen Such a Thing?" and others. The writer's works have been published in Russian, and his fables have been translated into many languages of the peoples of the USSR and abroad. M. Borbugulov made a significant contribution to the development of Kyrgyz literary studies. He has published several monographs, collections of scientific and critical articles, and hundreds of articles dedicated to the problems of Kyrgyz Soviet literature.
For the book "The Unity of the National and the International," he was awarded the USSR Writers' Union Prize for Criticism in 1981.
A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1958, a member of the USSR Writers' Union since 1956.
He has been awarded the medals "For Labor Distinction," "For Valorous Labor. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin," "Veteran of Labor," and received a Certificate of Honor from the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR and a Certificate of Honor from the Central Committee of the Komsomol.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz
Tamsilder. — Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1956. — 91 p. Fables.
Kyrgyz Soviet Drama: A New Approach. — Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1958. — 118 p.
Paths of Development of Kyrgyz Soviet Drama.
Tamsilder. — Frunze: Kyrgyzokuupedmambas, 1960. — 114 p. Fables.
Keregem saga aitam...: Tamsilder jana azilder. — Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1964. — 119 p. Hint.
Eletik jigit: Novel. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1964. — 404 p. A Man from the Mountains.
Uchu-kyyirsiz jol. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1968. — 184 p. An Endless Road.
Tandalg'an tamsilder. — Frunze: Mektep, 1973. — 124 p. Selected Fables.
Kench kapkasyn achyp... Literary-critical articles. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1975. — 180 p. The Secrets of the Artistic World.
Tamsilder. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1978. — 96 p. Fables.
Konchu karyshkyr: Tamsilder, satirical poems, feuilletons. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1980. — 312 p. The Wolf — The Shepherd.
Chymchym tuz: Satirical miniatures and humor. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1983. — 127 p. A Pinch of Salt.
Chychkandyn toyu: Tamsilder. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1987. — 104 p. A Feast for a Mouse.
in Russian
Bitter Medicine: Fables. — Frunze: Kyrgyzgospublish, 1958. — 62 p.
Paths of Development of Kyrgyz Soviet Drama. — Frunze: Kyrgyzgospublish, 1958. — 137 p.
The Young Man from the Remote Village: Novel. — Moscow: Soviet Writer, 1967. — 261 p.
Grandma and the Satellite: Comedy. — Moscow: VAAAP, 1977. — 58 p.
