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The People's Writer was born on September 28, 1932 in the town of Mynbulak, Zhambyl Region, Zhualyn District. In 1955, he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
He was a correspondent and literary employee of the newspapers "Leninshil Zhas" (now "Zhas Alash"), "Socialist Kazakhstan" (now "Egemen Kazakhstan"). 1963-1970 Editor of the newspaper "Leninshil Zhas". After that, he worked as the editor-in-chief of the Zhazuchy publishing house, the Zhalyn almanac, the Zhuldyz magazine, the second secretary of the board of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan, and the chief editor of Kazakh Beyrabite. newspapers and secretary of the board of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan.
We have seen that if a person is born with artistic talent, then the realization of this talent depends on the life path and personal interests of each person. The well-known classic E. Hemingway says that a person's unhappy childhood and the numerous difficulties he has encountered have a good effect on the development of a writer, give an additional plot, a new idea. There are those who agree with this opinion of E. Hemingway, and those who oppose it. In the works of prominent representatives of the classical Kazakh literature of the 20th century, one can find things that correspond to this opinion. It is known that a beautiful and impressive spiritual bridge has been laid between the life and work of such talented people as the bright star of children's literature B. Sokpakbaev, folk writers S. Muratbekov, Sh. Murtaza. Children who felt with their childish hearts how the Kazakh people experienced hardships, poverty and deprivation during the cruel war of the past, and kept it in the corner of their minds, grew up and brought to life the incomparable worlds on which they depended on that fate. "Journey to Childhood", "The Dead Don't Return", "The Smell of Wormwood", "Wild Apple", "Thunder on a Cloudless Day", "Girl of 41", "Ai and Aisha", "Boarding Bread", etc. . Although the works are taken from the writers' personal lives, they are valuable things that artistically and artistically support the fate and reality of an entire people. If you look at the fate of the artists who made a special contribution to the art of speech, you can see that they are in the thick of the events of the country's life, contributing to social, political, social and cultural events, leading the spirit of the country to civilization. The reason for this is that artists live in a certain society, share the interests of a certain social group, so their work also has a certain social meaning and content. The writer is also a human being, a natural being. As a person, the biography and life of the artist includes shortcomings and achievements.
1989-1992 Chief editor of the newspaper "Egemen Kazakhstan", 1992-1994 He worked as the chairman of the state television and radio company of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He was a member of the Mazhilis of the Parliament.
Over the years, the writer's stories "Found Sea" (1963), "Child of the Unknown Soldier" (1969), "Akhmetzhan's Oath" (1973), "Front Without a Gun" (1977), "Bride of the 41st Year" (1972) were published , "Bread of the boarding school" (1974) stories, "Black Pearl" (1977), novels from five books "Red Arrow", "Ai and Aisha" (1999). ), four volumes of his writings (1990-2000), 6 volumes of his writings, 7 volumes of his selected works, Books “Elim, I tell you, President, and listen” (together with K. Smailov) (1998), “One world less » (2008). The stories of G.Kh.Andersen, Hungarian folk tales, Sh.Aitmatov "Botagoz", "Goodbye, Gulsary", "Tengiz zhagalay gen targupet", "Thunderstorm station" were translated into Kazakh; He translated Mustai Karim's story "The Joy of Our Home", E. Erskine's novel "Marykchan Children", L. Lagin's story "Old Man Hottabych".
Undoubtedly, a great ideal for ordinary readers will be a person known for his unique works of art, which embodied the dreams and fantasies of many. The human nature of the artist, who is an ordinary face of the people, is clearly visible in his honesty, common sense, knowledge and individuality. The artistic environment, social, social, historical and political conditions also play a leading role in the formation of the true moral image of the artist. Since the artist is a people's person, he will be in search of virtue all his life in order to educate himself, broaden his horizons, elevate his consciousness. There is no educational institution that trains a special writer or poet. The faculties of language, literature and journalism, although they provide theoretical education, do not develop talent and abilities. Then everything depends on the future artist himself. Long-term literary search not only improves the skill of the artist, but also shapes his civic appearance, social attitude, artistic activity, patriotism, nationalism, and dignity. From this point of view, we see that all the famous artists who have a place in the history of our literature have devoted their creative interests to the cause of educating the spiritual foundation of their native people.
The beginning of Sherkhan Murtaza's creativity came from journalism. He graduated from the Moscow State University of Russia with a degree in Political and Fiction Editor and began his career at the Kazakh State Fiction and Literary Publishing House. It is known that Gafu Kairbekov, Kasym Kaisenov, Berkair Amanshin, Abdikarim Akhmetov, Sauyrbek Bakbergenov, Amantai Baitanaev, Seifolla Ospanov worked in the publishing house in those years. On this occasion, the poet Gafu Kairbekov writes: “In all the biographies of Sherkhan Murtaza, one situation remains unmentioned. After graduating from Moscow University, he first worked for a short time at the Zhazuchi publishing house. In this publication, I met Sherkhan. Sh. Murtazy: “In 1955, after graduating from the institute, I went to work at the Kazakh literary publishing house. After studying abroad, I distanced myself from the world of literature here, and I am not a writer at all, ”he wrote, pointing out that it was not easy, although at first he worked briefly in a publishing house.
Sherkhan began working for the Leninshil Zhas newspaper in the autumn of 1956. At first he worked as a translator in the youth editorial office, translating TASS messages from Moscow from Russian into Kazakh. Translations were published on the pages of the Leninshil Zhas newspaper, Mrs. Ihsan, We Know (from Korean fairy tales), Moscow in October Days, The Amazing Guard, and others. The only reason for the discovery of the first journalistic abilities in Sherkhan was the talented journalist Telman Zhanuzakov. When he worked in a youth publication, he said: “If you constantly translate, you will be fine, even a small one, it’s good that your essay is printed.” After the patronage of the journalist Telman Zhanuzakov, he began to adapt to writing news, descriptions, correspondence, articles and essays.
The most significant period in the life of the writer fell on 1956-1969, while in 1963-1970 he was the editor-in-chief of the Leninshil Zhas newspaper, wrote many social and portrait essays on the life of working people, problematic articles on the topic of production. This prompted him to collect material for future work. The result was the first collection of essays, The Builder of Daku (1958), after the first story, The Found Sea (1964), followed by Thunder on a Cloudless Day (1965), Child of the Unknown Soldier (1966), Without a Gun "Maidan" (1969). It is noted that "journalism is an area that shows all creativity, for which it is necessary to be able to clearly distinguish between two elements: productive, effective work or unproductive, unproductive work, the difference between these two is visible in the work of every journalist."
The writer Sh. Murtaza spoke in time, expressed his thoughts and made a conclusion. In his essays “A Billion Waves”, “Akyk-Darya Valley”, “Crashing Sea” and other articles such as “Bread Flood”, “Trains Stop”, he presented the honored workers of the virgin lands. He was able to stand out with his journalistic work on the subject of production. Sherkhan's main goal as a publicist in the early stages was to choose a specific topic, to study life phenomena as deeply as possible and to draw a clear and weighty conclusion from his point of view. This shows that the most important characteristic of Sherkhan is to write about the phenomenon of the world, that is, to analyze the topic, to study its nature and character with skill. After these two, many of the writer's materials, skillfully written with the abilities given by nature, subsequently turned into works of art.
Sh. If we recall that Murtaza and his generation came to literature during the famous warm-up period - when in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the superpower of that time, exposing the cult of individualism, and the public's breath expanded - the social and spiritual situation at that time seemed to create an opportunity for free-thinking and noble pursuits. “And the literature of the early sixties begins a truly new era in the history of the Soviet Union. I.V. Death of Stalin, decisions of the XX Party Congress, N.S. Khrushchev's "warmth" freed literature, which to a certain extent was an instrument of pure ideology, from thematic constraint. In this era, the younger generation that came to literature did not see the prohibitions that their predecessors had, but sought to know the reality of life in their own way and freely express their thoughts. Older writers also sought to look at reality with new eyes, to see the pre-existing regime with critical eyes. In general, although things did not go beyond party politics and the life of a socialist country, literature had the opportunity to say a new word. Time itself created the conditions for the rapid growth and development of the generation of the 60s, their search in the field of art. That is why literature, starting from the 60s, went down in history as an integral period.
The role of literature in social life and education of a person has not been undermined, and that is why he is in the forefront of the generation that began to revive new ideas, serve society, the nation, from today's point of view, create new literature. Sherkhan Murtaza undoubtedly stood free from ideological dogmatism and fought for his ideas. The young prose writer, whose thoughts and words are sharp as diamonds, highly educated, fiery language, painful eloquence, sought to give the genre of literary and artistic prose individuality. The socio-aesthetic views of any artist cannot be considered separately from his time. Sherkhan Murtaza and his generation entered our spiritual arena in the 60s of the 20th century. Therefore, their attitude to literature and art was formed within the framework of the humanism of the twentieth century, they emphasized the creative role of art. At the same time, the essence of that generation, which today entered the Kazakh cultural studies as the concept of "60s", is distinguished by its integrity. Meanwhile, Sherkhan Murtaza was "a writer who found his genre and theme, as well as a living problem" with new ideological and thematic features in that generation.
The artist Sh. Murtaza is one of the brightest representatives of a new era in Kazakh literature, social content, themes and ideas, and the artistic quality of a completely new classical literature. He created the art of speech, which has different characteristics in terms of social attitude, worldview, historical goals, aesthetic and artistic structure, and firmly established the method of realism in Kazakh literature. He looked at his native people with great love, paid attention to their way of life, customs and culture.
His confidence in this future is connected with the artist's longing for a man who is not influenced by time and overwhelmed by the burden of a new life. In addition, the weight of Sherkhan's works is not only in this. Because it is clear what the writer hates, what he rejects, what he approves, what kind of morality he wants to develop, so openly and clearly. It is even insulting to say that the author and narrator of this do not feel the joy of life. It is no secret that an artist, even if he is sad or depressed, inspires cheerful hopes, excites distant dreams, and then creates a work. Sh. In order to better understand the direction of such works of Murtaza, the secret of ideological originality, it is necessary to consider them together with works in which his boundless love of life and passionate love are directly and clearly visible.
