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Chingiz Aitmatov was a Soviet and Kyrgyz author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He is best known for his novels and short stories, which combine realism with fantasy and often focus on the themes of love, loss, and human suffering. He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1983 and the State Prize of the USSR in 1989. He was also a member of the Soviet Writers' Union and the Kyrgyz Writers' Union. Chingiz Aitmatov was born on 12 December 1928 in Sheker, Kyrgyz SSR, USSR. He was the son of Torekul Aitmatov, a Kyrgyz civil servant, and his wife, Chingiz Aitmatova, a teacher. He studied at the Kyrgyz State University and the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. Chingiz Aitmatov's first novel, The White Ship, was published in 1958 and was an immediate success. He went on to write several more novels and short stories, including The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1980), The Scaffold (1985), and The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1989). He also wrote several plays and screenplays, including The White Ship (1962) and The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1989). Chingiz Aitmatov died on 10 June 2008 in Nuremberg, Germany, at the age of 79. He was buried in his hometown of Sheker.

Popular As Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov
Occupation writer,actor
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 12 December 1928
Birthday 12 December
Birthplace Sheker, Kirghiz SSR, USSR [now Kyrgyzstan]
Date of death 10 June, 2008
Died Place Nuremberg, Germany
Nationality Kyrgyzstan

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1995

In 1995, he became Kyrgyzstan's ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands and also represented his home country in the European Union, NATO and UNESCO.

1994

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1994

1991

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Aitmatov's novels found a new audience in the West and gained popularity in Germany.

1990

In 1990-1991 he served as an advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev and in 1990 was appointed Soviet Ambassabor to Luxemburg.

He served as the Soviet and then Russian ambassador to Belgium from 1990 to 1993.

During the 1990s, Chingiz Aitmatov was member of the Kyrgyzstan's parliament.

1977

Aitmatov won two more State Prizes in 1977 and 1983, and was named a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1978.

1969

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969

1967

In 1967 he became a member of the Executive Board of the Soviet Writers Union, and in 1968 he won the Soviet State Prize for literature for his novel Farewell, Gulsary!, a tale of an old man reminiscing about the parallel lives of himself and his old horse, which is dying.

1965

Chingiz Aitmatov was a Russian-Kyrgyz writer and statesman known for such films as Pervyy uchitel (1965), Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalim (1977) and Jamila (1994).

1964

From 1964 to 1985 he was Chairman of the Cinema Union of Kyrgyzian SSR, and in 1985 he was named Chairman of the Kyrgyz Writers Union.

1958

From 1958 to 1966 he was roving correspondent for the leading Soviet Newspaper Pravda.

His representative works : 'Jamila' (1958), 'The First Teacher' (1967), 'Farewell, Gyulsary!' (1967), 'The White Ship' (1972), and 'The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years' (1988) were translated in more than 20 languages across the world.

1952

He made his literary debut in Russia, in 1952, with publication of his stories in Russian.

1937

In 1937, while attending the Institute for Red Professorship in Moscow, Torekul was arrested and executed on charges of anti-Soviet bourgeois nationalism. Young Aitmatov was brought up by a single mother. He attended the Russian school, then Kyrgyz Agricultural Institute in Frunze, but changed from the study of livestock to the study of literature at the Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.

1928

He was born Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov on December 12, 1928, in Kirgizia, Soviet Union. His family was bilingual, Russian-Kyrgyz. His father, Torekul Aitmatov, was one of the first Kyrgyz communists and a regional party secretary.

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