Suleimenov was born on 18 May 1936 in Alma-Ata . He graduated from Geological Sciences Department of Kazakh State University in 1959 . Suleimenov also finished Gorkii Institute of Literature in 1961 . Between 1962-1971 , he worked at Kazakhskaya Pravda . Suleimenov was awarded Komsomol Prize for Kazakhstan in 1966 . Between 1969 and 1989 he was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . In 1981 he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival . He became First Secretary of the Committee of the Kazakhstan 's Writers Union in 1983 . He is a Russophone writer
12th Moscow International Film Festival
12th Moscow International Film Festival
Olzhas Suleimenov