Prose writer K. Esenkodzhoyev was born in the village of Ichke-Bulun (now the Jety-Oguz district of the Issyk-Kul region) in a family of poor peasants. In 1937, he graduated from high school and enrolled in the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute. In 1941, at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he volunteered to go to the front.
K. Esenkodzhoyev is one of the founders of the genre of science fiction in Kyrgyz children's literature. His literary activity began with the book "Sayakatchy bala" ("The Boy Traveler"), published in 1938. He is the author of a number of science fiction stories, cycles of poems, and translations into Kyrgyz of fairy tales by A. S. Pushkin, poems and epics by V. V. Mayakovsky, S. Mikhalkov, K. Chukovsky, and others.
K. Esenkodzhoyev died in battles defending Moscow.
Member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1939.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz language:
Sayakatchy bala: Aцгеме. — F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1937. — 25 p. The Boy Traveler.
Uchunchu shar: Aцгеме. — F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1938. — 30 p. The Third Sphere.
Kanattulardyn syry: Poem. — F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. — 50 p. The Secrets of the Winged.
Rodinyn uulu: Aцгеме. — F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. — 42 p. The Son of the Motherland.
Uchunchu shar: Aцгеме. — F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. — 35 p. The Third Sphere.
Sharshе: Aцгеме. — F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. — 32 p.
Jalinduu jashtar: Poems. — F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1951. — 817 p. Fiery Youth.
Angemeler jana yrlаr. — F.: Kyrgyzokupedmambas, 1957. — 195 p. Stories and Poems.
Chygarmalardyn zhiyngagy: Angemeler jana yrlаr. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1972. — 214 p. Selected Works.
Kanattulardyn syry: Yrlаr. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1975. — 34 p. The Secrets of the Winged.
Sharshе: Angeme. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1975. — 29 p.
Sayakatchy bala: Fantastikalyk angeme. — F.: Mektep, 1984. — 24 p. The Boy Traveler.
TRANSLATIONS
Mikhalkov S. Tovarishchi: Poems. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1939. — 16 p.
Swift Jonathan. Gulliver in the Land of Giants. — F. — Kazan: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1940. — 55 p.
Pushkin A. S. The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Glorious and Mighty Son Prince Guidon Saltanovich and the Beautiful Swan Princess. — F. — Kazan: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1940. — 40 p.
Pushkin A. S. The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Glorious and Mighty Son Prince Guidon Saltanovich and the Beautiful Swan Princess. — F.: Kazan: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1949. — 32 p.
Rakhtanov I. Amangeldy Iymanov: Historical Story. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1941. — 44 p.
