Janysh Kulmambetov

Janysh Osmonovich Kulmambetov (Kyrgyz and Russian: Жаныш Осмонович Кулмамбетов;) (born 1955) is a Kyrgyz writer-screenwriter, playwright, stage and film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, journalist, and theater critic.

He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Studies and was named People's Writer of the Kyrgyz Republic (2021).

After graduating from high school, Janysh entered the theatre school at Kyrgyz State Academic Drama Theater (in Frunze), from which he graduated in 1974 with honors.

From 1975-82, he studied at the Department of Theater at the Tashkent Theatre and Arts Institute of A.N. Ostrovsky (in Tashkent), graduating with honors.

According to his memoirs, Kulmambetov began to try his hand at writing in sixth grade His first play, Stolen Fire, was broadcast in 1976 in the Republican radio broadcast of Kyrgyzstan, and was later staged.

Since then, he has written more than a dozen plays for radio, and a total of more than 50 dramatic works.

His plays have been performed and published in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, and Armenia.

In addition to plays, Kulmambetov's work includes novels, stories and screenplays.

He has translated works by Molière, Oscar Wilde, Viktor Rozov, and other authors.

Central to the work of Kulmambetov are themes of figures of Kyrgyz history.

Kulmambetov also directs theatrically.

He has staged a number of performances, including Jaisan and Ademi.

From 1989-92, he attended graduate school at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Art (in Moscow).

Since 2000, he has made more than twenty films (feature, documentary), and others.

In 2012, he won first prize at the international competition scenarios, based on fairy tales, legends and epics of the peoples of Asia - Asia 2012, with a script full-length feature film Stone of my country.

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