Critic, literary scholar A. Erkebayev was born in the village of Kara-Teyit in the Alaï district of the Osh region into a peasant family. Orphaned at an early age, he was raised in a boarding school. In 1970, he graduated from the V. I. Lenin Secondary School in the village of Kara-Myk, in 1975— from the philological faculty of the KGU named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR, and in 1981— from the postgraduate program at the Institute of World Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He earned a PhD in philological sciences (1983).
He began his career as a lecturer in the propaganda and cultural mass work department of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Kyrgyzstan. From 1982 to 1985 and from 1987 to 1988, he worked as a senior lecturer in the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature at the V. V. Mayakovsky Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute, and from 1985 to 1987— as deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Kyrgyzstan Madeniyati." Since 1988, he has been the director of the Institute of Language and Literature of the Kyrgyz SSR.
He has been publishing since 1972. The first book of the writer was a collection of literary-critical articles titled "Azyrky uchur jana kyrgyz poeziyasy" ("Modernity and Kyrgyz Poetry"), published in 1980. He is the author of three books and more than seventy literary-critical and literary studies articles and reviews. Some of the critic's works have been published in the central press.
In 1983, A. Erkebayev was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize of the republic for the book "Modernity and Kyrgyz Poetry."
He has been a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1983 and a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1980.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz language:
Azyrky uchur jana kyrgyz poeziyasy: Adabiy-syn makalalar. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1980. — 140 p. Modernity and Kyrgyz Poetry.
Kyrgyz prozasyнын kotgvaсттары: Syn makalalar. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1983. — 140 p. Contrasts of Kyrgyz Prose.
Syn-synchylardyn: Makalalar, portretter, pikirler. — Fr.: Kyrgyzstan, 1986. — 160 p. Criticism and Critics.
