Chinghiz Aitmatov

Chinghiz Aitmatov was born on 12 December 1928 in the village of Sheker, in the Kyrgyz mountains. His father, a senior official, was shot during the purges of 1938; the boy, raised by his grandmother and the village storytellers, worked from the war onwards in the fields and as secretary of the local soviet, charged at fourteen with bringing death notices to families. An agronomist who graduated from the agricultural institute in Frunze, then a journalist, he entered the Gorky Institute in Moscow in 1956, which he left two years later. He died on 10 June 2008 in Nuremberg.

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• Short storyJamiliaЖамийлаChinghiz Aitmatov · 1958Literature