Chinghiz aitmatov biography of abraham

CHINGHIZ AITMATOV

The Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov () is one of the few Central Asia writers to have won acclaim outside the Soviet Union.

Chinghiz aitmatov biography of abraham

His works have been translated into English and other other languages and have been published in places as diverse as Kuwait and Bolivia. The son of one of Kyrgyzstan’s leading Communist officials who was executed in Stalin’s purges, Aitmatov studied animal husbandry in college before turning to writing.

For a while he worked for Pravda, once covering an earthquake in Uzbekistan that collapsed part of a mountain into a river.

Aitmatov is loved in Kyrgyzstan and widely revered throughout Central Asia. A newspaper editor who named her first-born son after him told the Wall Street Journal, “His works gave us a great push to talk about national identity, about sovereignty.” A human right activist told the same newspaper, “Every family read him and then reread him.

His books taught us to be brave. He proved to us that even a si