Каюм Тангрыкулиев (Russian name) - Kaýum Taňrygulyýew (Turkmen name) Turkmen poet and prose writer, people's writer of Turkmenistan (1984).
He born into a peasant family. In 1950 he graduated from high school, in 1955 - the Turkmen State University, Faculty of Philology. From 1953 he worked in the publishing house of the newspaper "Turkmenistan". Since 1960, he worked at the Institute of Language and Literature, at the Ministry of Education, taught at various universities and was the editor of the children's magazine "Korpe" ("Baby") in two languages. In 1967 he joined the CPSU.
He has been engaged in literary activity since the 1950s. His first book "Golden Alchik" was published in 1956. Poems and fairy tales of Kayum Tangrykuliev were regularly published on the pages of such children's magazines and newspapers as "Vesyolye Kartinki", "Murzilka" and others, and in dozens of other countries. His books were published in Moscow publishing houses ("Children's Literature", "Baby", "Young Guard", "Music", "Rainbow")
Kayum Tangrykuliev has published about 200 books in 45 languages of the world with a total circulation of over 30 million copies. Kayum Tangrykuliev is one of the leading scholars in the field of children's literary criticism. He has written over 100 articles, 6 monographs, a textbook on children's literature, and a textbook on singing. More than 30 of his books have been translated into languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Moldavian, Romanian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian , Mongolian, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Armenian, Georgian, Tatar, Karakalpak, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Gudal, Gujarati, Dari, Punjabi, Hausa, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, etc.