On October 28, A.S. A collection of memories "Amazing Talaptan" written for the 60th anniversary of fellow writer, dramatist Talaptan Akhmetzhan and a prose collection of Talaptan Akhmetzhan "...gumyryn kishi jasynin" were presented in the East Kazakhstan regional library named after Pushkin.
Talaptan Akhmetzhan was born on December 16 in the village of Terektibulak, Kurchim district, East Kazakhstan region. Terektibulak secondary school, boarding school named after Zhambyl in Ust-Kamenogorsk, and then higher education at Ust-Kamenogorsk Construction and Road Institute. He began his career in the construction industry, then he was an editor at the East Kazakhstan Regional Television and Radio Committee, a reporter, head of department at the republican newspaper "Kazakh Literature", chief specialist at the Ministry of Press and Mass Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan, department editor at "Egemen Kazakhstan" newspaper, deputy editor-in-chief at "Parasat" magazine, He served as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan, the editor-in-chief of "An Arys" publishing house.
Akhmetzhan's prose books "Tuma", "Beauty and Artist", "Guest of the World", "Aqikat Zholy", "Sadness" and three volumes of "Selected works" of Akhmetzhan were published. Talaptan Akhmetzhan, a laureate of the international "Alash" and Valentin Pikul prizes, is an engineer by profession, but with his writing talent, he is a writer who has won the hearts of the readers.