His first two publications appeared in 1952 in Russian: The Newspaper Boy Dziuio and Ашым. For the next eight years he worked for Pravda. In 1946 he began studying at the Animal Husbandry Division of the Kirghiz Agricultural Institute in Frunze, but later switched to literary studies at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, where he lived from 1956 to 1958. He later held jobs as a tax collector, a loader, an engineer's assistant and continued with many other types of work. At fourteen he was an assistant to the Secretary at the Village Soviet. The future author studied at a Soviet school in Sheker.

In 1937 his father was charged with 'bourgeois nationalism' in Moscow, arrested and executed in 1938.Īitmatov lived at a time when Kyrgyzstan was being transformed from one of the most remote lands of the Russian Empire to a republic of the USSR. In early childhood he wandered as a nomad with his family, as the Kyrgyzstan people did at the time. The name Chingiz is the same as the honorary title of Genghis Khan. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan literature.Īitmatov's parents were civil servants in Sheker. The future aut Chinghiz Aitmatov ( Чингиз Айтматов, Tschingis Aitmatow, Čingiz Ajtmatov, Tšõngõz Ajtmatov, Cengiz Aytmatov, Tsjingiz Ajtmatov, Tchinguiz Aïtmatov, جنكيز ايتماتوف) was an author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz.

Aitmatov lived at a time when Kyrgyzstan was being transformed from one of the most remote lands of the Russian Empire to a republic of the USSR.

In 1937 his father was charged with 'bourgeois nationalism' in Moscow, arrested and executed in 1938. Aitmatov's parents were civil servants in Sheker. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan literature. Chinghiz Aitmatov ( Чингиз Айтматов, Tschingis Aitmatow, Čingiz Ajtmatov, Tšõngõz Ajtmatov, Cengiz Aytmatov, Tsjingiz Ajtmatov, Tchinguiz Aïtmatov, جنكيز ايتماتوف) was an author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz.

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