Critic, literary scholar Kadyrbek Matiev was born in the village of Ak-Took in the Suzak district of the Osh region in a peasant family. In 1952, he graduated from the seven-year school "Osumdak" in his native village, in 1955 from the Jalal-Abad Pedagogical College named after A. S. Pushkin, and in 1960 from the philological faculty of KGU.
From 1962 to 1965, he studied in the postgraduate program at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR. Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (1965).
He began his career as a teacher of Russian language and literature at the Kyz-Kyol Secondary School. Since 1965, he worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR, from 1970 as a senior lecturer in the Department of Dialectical Materialism at KGU, and from 1971 as an associate professor in the Department of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy at the Frunze Institute of Arts named after B. Beishenalieva.
From 1981 to 1986, he worked in the Union of Writers of Kyrgyzstan as a literary consultant and literary staff member at the editorial office of the magazine "Ala-Too".
He has been engaged in literary and critical activities since 1962. His first collection of literary-critical articles "Turmush khudojniktin kezu menen" ("Life Through the Eyes of an Artist") was published in 1970. In 1971, a monograph titled "Lyrical Art as an Aesthetic Phenomenon" was published in Russian.
Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1984.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz language
Turmush khudojniktin kezu menen. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1970. — 174 p. Life Through the Eyes of an Artist.
in Russian
Lyrical Art as an Aesthetic Phenomenon. --- Fr.; Ilim, 1971.---- 151 p.
The Nature of the Artistic Image: Collection of Articles.--- Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1985-- 108 p.
