Chinghiz Aitmatov

Chinghiz Aitmatov (Kyrgyz: Чыңгыз Айтматов (Çıňğız Aytmatov); Russian: Чингиз Торекулович Айтматов; born on 12 December 1928 in Sheker (Kyrgyz: Шекер (Şeker)), near Talas in Kyrgyzstan, is a Kyrgyz writer who composed works in both Russian and Kyrgyz, the best known figure of his country's literature. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (600 × 800 pixel, file size: 58 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Tschingis Ajtmatow fotografiert am 9. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (600 × 800 pixel, file size: 58 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Tschingis Ajtmatow fotografiert am 9. ... Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили) is a Northwestern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили) is a Northwestern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. ... Talas is a small town in northwestern Kyrgyzstan, beautifully located in a long valley between two imposing mountain ranges. ... Motto none Anthem National Anthem of the Kyrgyz Republic Capital (and largest city) Bishkek Official languages Kyrgyz, Russian Government Republic  -  President Kurmanbek Bakiyev  -  Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev Independence from the Soviet Union   -  Declared 31 August 1991   -  Completed 25 December 1991  Area  -  Total 199,900 km² (86th) 77,181 sq mi... Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили) is a Northwestern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. ...

Life

Aitmatov's parents were civil servants in Sheker. The name Chingiz is the same as the honorary title of Genghis Khan. In early childhood he wandered as a nomad with his family, as the Kyrgyz people did at the time. In 1937 his father was charged with "bourgeois nationalism" in Moscow, arrested and executed. For other uses, see Genghis Khan (disambiguation). ... Languages Kyrgyz Religions Sunni Islam Related ethnic groups other Turkic peoples Kyrgyz (also spelled Kirghiz) are a Turkic ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Position of Moscow in Europe Coordinates: , Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Government  - Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Area  - City 1,081 km²  (417. ...

He started working while he was still a child. At fourteen he was an assistant to the Secretary at the Village Soviet. He later held jobs as a tax collector, a loader, an engineer's assistant and continued with many other types of work.

Despite these early hardships, he was lucky enough to live at a time when Kyrgyzstan was transformed from one of the most remote lands of the Russian Empire to a republic of the USSR. He had the opportunity to study at a Soviet school built at Sheker. Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start...

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. For the next eight years he worked for Pravda. His first two publications appeared in 1952 in Russian: The Newspaper Boy Dziuio and Ašym. His first work published in Kyrgyz was Ak Ğaan (White Rain) in 1954, and his well known work Jamila (Ğamijla; variants: Dzhamila, Jamilya) appeared in 1958. 1980 saw his first novel The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years; his next significant novel, The Scaffold was published in 1988. The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years and other writings were translated into several languages. Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shepherd with his sheep in FăgăraÅŸ Mountains, Romania. ... Bishkek cityscape Bishkek (Бишкек) is the capital of Kyrgyzstan. ... The Maxim Gorky Literary Institute (Russian: ) is a higher education institute in Moscow. ... Position of Moscow in Europe Coordinates: , Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Government  - Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Area  - City 1,081 km²  (417. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pravda (Russian: , The Truth) was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...

Work

Chinghiz Aitmatov belongs to the post-war generation of writers. His output before Jamilya ^[1] was not significant, a few short stories and a short novel called Face to Face. But it was Jamilya ^[1] that came to prove the author's work. Louis Aragon described the novellete as the world's most beautiful love story, raising it even above Rudyard Kipling's World's Most Beautiful Love Story. Aitmatov's representative works also include the short novels Farewell, Gulsary! ^[2], The White Ship, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years ^[3], and The Scaffold. Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 - December 24, 1982), French historian, poet and novelist. ... This article is about the British author. ... The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (Russian: ), originally published in Russian in the Novyi Mir literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. ...

Aitmatov was honoured in 1963 with the Lenin Prize for Jamilya and later he was awarded a State prize for Farewell, Gulsary!^[2]. Aitmatov's art was glorified by admirers ^[4]. Even critics of Aitmatov mentioned high quality of his novels.^[5]. Lenin Prize (Russian: Ле́нинская пре́мия) was one of the highest awards in the Soviet Union. ...

Aitmatov's work has some elements that are unique specifically to his creative process. He is very close to mythology, not in the ancient sense of it -- rather, he tries to recreate and synthesize mythology in the context of contemporary life. This is prevalent in his work; in every story he refers to a myth, a legend, or a folktale. In The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years a poetic legend about a young captive turned into a mankurt serves a tragic allegory and becomes a significant symbolic expression of the philosophy of the novel. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (Russian: ), originally published in Russian in the Novyi Mir literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. ... The term mankurt comes from a Turkic myth popularized by Chinghiz Aitmatov in his novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (И больше века длится день), a philosophical tale about what can...

A second aspect of Aitmatov's writing is his ultimate closeness to our "little brothers" the animals, for their and our lives are intimately and inseparably connected. The two center characters of Farewell, Gulsary! are a man and his stallion. A camel plays a prominent role in The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years; one of the key turns of the novel which decides the fate of the main character is narrated through the story of the camel's rut and riot. The Scaffold starts off and finishes with the story of a wolf pack and the great wolf-mother Akbara and her cub; human lives enter the narrative but interweave with the lives of the wolves. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (Russian: ), originally published in Russian in the Novyi Mir literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. ...

Political career

In addition to his literary work, Chinghiz Aitmatov is the Kyrgyz ambassador to the European Union, NATO, UNESCO and the Benelux countries. He is also the father of former Kyrgyz foreign minister, Askar Aitmatov. NATO 2002 Summit in Prague. ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... Location of Benelux in Europe Official languages Dutch and French Membership  Belgium  Netherlands  Luxembourg Website http://www. ... Askar Chingizovich Aitmatov (born January 5, 1959 in Bishkek) is the Kyrgyzstan since June 2002. ...

Major works

with the Russian titles in parentheses

• A Difficult Passage (1956)
• Face to Face ("Лицом к лицу", 1957)
• Jamilla^[1] ("Джамиля", 1958)
• The First Teacher ("Первый учитель", 1962)
• Tales of the Mountains and Steppes ("Повести гор и степей", 1963)
• Farewell, Gulsary!^[2]("Прощай, Гульсары", 1966)
• The White Ship ("Белый пароход", 1970)
• The Ascent of Mt. Fuji ("Восхождение на Фудзияму", 1973)
• The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years ("И дольше века длится день", 1980)
• The Scaffold ("Плаха", 1988)

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (Russian: ), originally published in Russian in the Novyi Mir literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. ...

See also

• Mankurt, a term coming from a Turkic myth popularized by Chinghiz Aitmatov in his novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

The term mankurt comes from a Turkic myth popularized by Chinghiz Aitmatov in his novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (И больше века длится день), a philosophical tale about what can... This article is about the various peoples speaking one of the Turkic languages. ... The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (Russian: ), originally published in Russian in the Novyi Mir literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. ...

External links

1. ^ ^{a b c} Chingiz Aitmatov. Jamila. Translated by Fainna Glagoleva. Prepared for the Internet by Iraj Bashiri, 2002. http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Stories/Jamila.html
2. ^ ^{a b c} Chingiz Aitmatov. FAREWELL, GYULSARY! Translation into English by Progress Publishers, © 1973; http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Stories/Gyulsary.html (Text in English)
3. ^ The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov, book preview; http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~anoop/weblog/archives/000099.html
4. ^ Iraj Bashiri. The Art of Chingiz Aitmatov's Stories (discussion of characters, in English), http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Aitmatov/Jamila.html
5. ^ S.V.Kallistratova. We were not silent. Open letter to writer Chingiz Aitmatov, May 5, 1988 (in Russian), http://www.memo.ru/library/books/sw/chapt55.htm#_VPID_131

• http://lib.ru/PROZA/AJTMATOW/ An online collection of Aitmatov's works (in Russian)
• http://www.sovlit.com/bios/aitmatov.html Biography at SovLit.com (in English)