Kayrat Bakbergenov was born in 1953 in Alma-Ata.

In 1975 Kayrat Bakbergenov graduated from the M.Gorkogiy Literary institute as a translator of fiction. He is the author of the following books: Poimannyi veter (The caught wind), Vozvrascheniye  (Return, verses), Veretelka (the Kazakh folklore for children) and Otrazhyonnyie prostranstva (The reflected spaces - the book of translations). Kayrat Bakbergenov is also the author of a number of publications of the Kazakh folklore in the Serbian and German languages in the Plomye magazine and Was ist ein Glück year-book, as well as the author of multiple screenplays for animated films by the Kazakhfilm studio: Priglasheniye k igre (The invitation to game), Sezon babochek (A season of butterflies), Slepoi (Blind), To, chego ne bylo (Something that wasn’t), Sadovnik I roza (The gardener and a rose), Mukha (Fly), Sluchai na ulice N (A case on N street), Chei god luchshe? (Whose year is better?), and Shol po dorozhke vorobei (There was a sparrow on a path)