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Zeinulla Kabdolov ( 12 December 1927, village of Dossor Guriev region of the Kazakh SSR — August 25, 2006, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan) — Kazakh Soviet writer, playwright, translator, literary critic, literary critic, editor. Teacher, Professor (Since 1970). Doctor of Philology.

Biography
He was born in a working family. In 1950 he graduated the philological faculty of the Kazakh University named after S. M. Kirov in Alma-ATA.

In 1950-1952 he worked as a responsible Secretary of the magazine "Literature art", head of the prose section of the Union of writers of Kazakhstan (1952-1954), editor-in-chief of the magazine "Zhuldyz" (1954-1957).

1957 — at the party work, he was the head of the sector of culture of the Central Committee of the Communist party of Kazakhstan from 1957 to 1959, and then until 1961 — editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Kazakh adebieti" and the Secretary of the Union of writers of Kazakhstan.

In 1961 he defended his candidate and in 1970 — doctoral dissertation on "Theoretical problems of Kazakh literary studies". Professor since 1970.

Art
Zeynulla Kabdulov is the author of a number of prose works, essays, articles about Kazakh literature, as well as a textbook for universities "Fundamentals of the theory of literature" ("fundamentals of the theory of literature", 1970).

The first poems and essays were published in 1945, the first narrative "Sert" — in 1947.

Selected bibliography

 * The story "spark of life" ("Omir ushkyny", 1956, Russ. per. 1958), devoted to students.
 * Book of essays "Man" (1964)
 * Novel "the Flames" ("Zhalyn", 1963, Rus. per. 1971) on the life of workers and scientists,
 * Diologue "If we don't burn" ("We anbesa", 1974),
 * Confession (1975)
 * "The art of words" ("Soz oneri", 1976)
 * "Arrow" (1977), etc.

Z. Kabdulov — the author of the text of the popular song "the Girl from the Yaik".

He also works productively in the field of literary criticism. He published a monograph "the Nature of the genre" ("Secret of Genre", 1964), devoted to the issues of writing.

Some works of the writer have been translated into the languages of the USSR and foreign countries.

Zeinulla Kabdolov known as a translator. His translations are from Russian into Kazakh of some works of A. S. Pushkin, N. V. Gogol, A. N. Ostrovsky, A.m. Gorky, Nazim Hikmet, L. Cassil, VL. Dobrovolsky, V. Zakrutkin and others.