Poet, critic, literary scholar O. Sooronov was born in the village of Gologon in the Bazar-Kurgan district of the Osh region into a farmer's family. In 1957, he graduated from Secondary School No. 1 in the village of Bazar-Kurgan, and in 1967— from the philological faculty of KGU.
He began his labor biography in 1957 as a typesetter at the Bazar-Kurgan printing house, and from 1959 worked as a senior pioneer leader at the secondary school.
From 1959 to 1962, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. In 1967, he was appointed as a teacher at the Jalal-Abad Pedagogical College named after A. S. Pushkin.
From 1969 to 1979 and from 1981, he worked as a junior research associate at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR, and from 1979 to 1981, he was the head of the department of original fiction at the publishing house "Kyrgyzstan".
He has been published since 1954. He began his creative path as a poet. His first poetry collection "Toolorumdun zynaty" ("A Tribute to My Mountains") was published in 1971. He is the author of six poetry collections, two monographs, a collection of literary-critical articles, and others.
A member of the CPSU since 1964, a member of the USSR Union of Writers since 1980.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz language:
Toolorumdun zynaty: Poems and Songs. — Fr.: Mektep, 1971. —48 p. A Tribute to My Mountains.
Juz: Poems and Songs. — Fr.: Mektep, 1976. —48 p. One Hundred.
Jaraat syry: Poems and Songs. — Fr.: Mektep, 1977. —90 p. The Secret of the Wound.
Tazalykka chakyram: Poems and Songs. — Fr.: Mektep, 1979. —76 p. I Call for Honesty.
Mezgil jana talap: Literary-critical articles. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1981. —144 p. Time and Searches.
Sogush temasindagy kyrgyz poemalarynyn syuzhetnyk motivderi. — Fr.: Ilim, 1982. —88 p. The Plot Motifs of Kyrgyz Poems on War Themes.
Yrlarym menin — syrlarym: Poems and Songs. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1983. —88 p. My Secret in Verses.
Aruu duyne: Poems and Songs. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1985. —104 p. The World is Beautiful.
