Suleimenov Olzhas Omarovich was born in 1936 in Alma-Ata, poet, writer-literary scholar, People's Writer of the Kazakh SSR, social and political figure of Kazakhstan, diplomat. Graduated from school in 1954 and entered the geological exploration faculty of Kazakh State University, graduated in 1959, engineer-geologist. In 1959 he entered the Gorky Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow at the department of poetic translation, which he graduated in 1961.

In 1962-1971 literary employee of the newspaper "Kazakhstanskaya Pravda", chief editor of the script-editorial board of the movie studio "Kazakhfilm", head of the journalism department in the magazine "Prostor". 1971-1981 Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan. Since 1972, chairman of the Kazakh Committee for Relations with Writers of Asia and Africa, became one of the initiators and organizers of the 5th Conference of Writers of Asia and Africa in Alma-Ata (1975).

In 1975 he published a literary book "Az and I. The book of a well-meaning reader", which received a sharply negative resonance in Moscow, the book was banned, the author was not published for 8 years and practically stopped writing poetry. 1977-1995, 18 years chairman of the Chess Federation of Kazakhstan. Deputy, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR (1980-1984), deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1984-1989, 1989-1991).

Delegate to the XXVI Congress of the CPSU (1981). 1981-1984 Chairman of the State Committee of the Kazakh SSR on Cinematography. 1984-1992 - First Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan, Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Since 1992 - Honorary Chairman of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan.

In 1989 he became the initiator and leader of the people's movement "Nevada - Semipalatinsk", the purpose of which was to close the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site and other nuclear test sites in the world.

1991-1995 - leader of the "People's Congress of Kazakhstan" party, into which the anti-nuclear movement was transformed, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1994-1995).

1995-2001 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Italy (Rome) and, at the same time, to Greece and Malta.