Critic, literary scholar Dzh. Samaganov was born in 1915 and passed away on June 1, 1980, in the village of Ichke-Dzhergez, Ak-Su district, Issyk-Kul region, in a family of a laborer. Having lost his parents at an early age, he was raised in the Karakol orphanage until 1930. In 1935, he graduated from the Frunze Pedagogical Technical School, and in 1944, he graduated from the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute. From 1944 to 1947, he studied in the graduate school of the Institute of Language and Literature of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences (KyrFAN) of the USSR.From 1935 to 1937, he worked as a teacher and director of an incomplete secondary school in the village of Isfana, Leylak district, Osh region.
From 1937 to 1939, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. A participant in the Great Patriotic War, he was severely wounded in battles near Moscow at the end of 1942 and returned home from the hospital in 1943.
From 1947 to 1952, he worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Language and Literature of KyrFAN, and from 1952, he served as the secretary of the board of the Writers' Union of Kyrgyzstan. From 1953, he was the head of the department at the editorial office of the magazine "Ala-Too."
Since 1961, he was the chief editor of the Kyrgyz television studio and an editor at the "Mektep" publishing house. From 1970, he was a personal pensioner of republican significance.
He began publishing in 1946. He is the author of the monographs "M. Gorky and Kyrgyz Literature" (1966), "Maxim Gorky: Creative Path" (1975), several anthologies on native literature for senior classes of Kyrgyz schools, the bio-bibliographical reference book "Writers of Soviet Kyrgyzstan" of all previous editions, and numerous articles addressing current issues in the development of Kyrgyz Soviet literature.
A significant part of the writer's work was devoted to artistic translation. He translated Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" into Kyrgyz, V. G. Belinsky's article "Thoughts on Russian Literature in 1847," N. Durov's novella "The Fugitive," and others.
He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) since 1944 and a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1949.
He was awarded the Order of the "Badge of Honor," medals for "Courage," "For Labor Distinction," "For the Defense of Moscow," "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945," "For Diligent Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945," "29 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945," "30 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945," "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR," and others, as well as honorary certificates from the Gorno-Altai Regional Committee of the CPSU and the regional executive committees of people's deputies, and from the Tuvan and Khakass regional committees of the CPSU and regional executive committees of people's deputies.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz:
Soviet Kyrgyz Literature: Anthology. — F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1958. —484 p. Kyrgyz Soviet Literature.
Soviet Kyrgyz Writers: Bio-bibliographical Essays. — F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1958. —260 p. Writers of Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
Soviet Kyrgyz Writers: Bio-bibliographical Reference Book. — F.: Kyrgyzmambas, 1962. —600 p. Writers of Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
Maxim Gorky: His Creativity and Significance in Kyrgyz Literature. — F.: Mektep, 1966. —63 p. Maxim Gorky: His Life Path, Creativity. — F.: Mektep, 1975. — 76 p.
Soviet Kyrgyz Writers: Bio-bibliographical Reference Book. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1976. —726 p. Writers of Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
in Russian:
M. Gorky and Kyrgyz Literature. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1958. — 173 p.
Writers of Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Bio-bibliographical Reference Book. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1958. — 259 p.
Writers of Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Bio-bibliographical Reference Book. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1969. —644 p.
TRANSLATIONS
Beecher-Stowe H. Uncle Tom's Cabin. — F.: Kyrgyzuchpedgiz, 1959. — 408 p.
Durov N. The Fugitive: Novella. — F.: Mektep, 1970. — 154 p.