Literary scholar, critic, poet S. Djigitov was born in the village of Këldyk in the Uzgen district of the Osh region in a peasant family.
In 1951, he graduated from the seven-year school in his native village, in 1954—from the Kyrgyz Secondary School No. 5 named after A. S. Pushkin in Frunze, and in 1959—from the philological faculty of KGU. From 1962 to 1965, he studied in graduate school at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR. He earned a PhD in philological sciences in 1966.
He began his labor biography in 1959 as a rural teacher. From 1961 to 1962, he worked as a junior researcher, and since 1979, he has been the head of the sector for the interrelations of national literatures at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR. Since 1966, he has taught at KGU, and since 1974, he has been the deputy chief editor of the Kyrgyz Soviet Encyclopedia.
He has been published since the 1950s. He began his creative biography as a poet. Since 1962, he has appeared as a critic and literary scholar. He has published a number of monographs and scientific articles dedicated to the study and interpretation of the ideological and aesthetic experience of Kyrgyz Soviet literature. He is the author of several collections of literary-critical articles and a number of poetry collections characterized by deep lyricism and high professionalism. He has made poetic translations of the works of N. Hikmet and M. Karim. The writer has his own original prose works.
For his participation in the creation of the multi-volume Kyrgyz Soviet Encyclopedia since 1984, he was awarded the State Prize of the Kyrgyz SSR in the field of science and technology.
A member of the CPSU since 1975, a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1966.
He has been awarded Honorary Certificates from the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz
Ыймандай сырым менин: Ырлар, поэмалар, котормолор. — Ф.: Мектеп, 1971, —80 б. Honest Word.
Ырлар жана жылдар: Адабий-сын макалалар. — Ф.: Кыргызстан, 1972, — 180 б. Poems and Years.
Жацычылык жолунда: Адабий-сын макалалар жыйнагы. — Ф.: Кыргызстан, 1975. — 188 б. On the Path of Innovation.
Кун тууду (Ит икаясы). —Ф.: Мектеп, 1977, — 122 б. Rising.
Керкем сез маселелери: Адабий-сын макалалар жыйнагы. — Ф.: Кыргызстан, 1982. — 256 б. Problems of Artistic Word.
20-жылдардагы кыргыз адабияты. — Ф.: Илим, 1984.— 159 б. Kyrgyz Literature of the 1920s.
Жылдар жаиырыгы: Ырлар, поэмалар, пародиялар. — Ф.: Кыргызстан, 1987. — 124 б. Echoes of the Years.
in Russian
Обретение новых традиций. — Ф.: Кыргызстан, 1984. — 192 с.
TRANSLATIONS
Сент-Экзюпери А. де. Маленький принц. — Ф.: Мектеп, 1968.— 83 с.
Хикмет Назым. Плакучая ива: Стихи. — Ф.: Кыргызстан. 1969. — 161 с.
Карим Мустай. Стихи. — Ф.: Кыргызстан, 1974.— 63 с.
Сент-Экзюпери А. де. Маленький принц. — Ф.: Мектеп, 1981. — 92 с.
