Chingiz Torekulovich Torekulovich Aitmatov

Background

Aitmatov, Chingiz Torekulovich was born on December 12, 1928 in Sheker Village, Kirghizia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Aitmatov Torekul and Nahima Aitmatov.

Education

Degree in Animal Husbandry, Kirghiz Agricultural Institute, Frunze, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1952; postgraduate, Literature Institute, Moscow, 1956-1958.

Career

Writer since 1952; formerly Correspondent for Pravda. Chairman 1969-1986; Chair, of Union of Writers of Kirghiz South.S.R. since 1986. Candidate; Writer of Kirghiz South.S.R. 1968.

Vice-Chairman Committee of Solidarity with Peoples of Asian and African Countries.

Deputy to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet. Chairman Issyk-Kul Forum since 1986.

Achievements

• Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • I Dolshe Veka Dlitsya Den / the Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

    (Yedigei looks back on his life as he brings the body of a...)

  • Jamila

    (THIS SHORT NOVEL TELLS THE STORY OF INITIATION INTO GREAT...)

  • Ascent of Mount Fuji

    (Book by Aitmatov, Chingiz, Mukjamedzhanov, Kaltai)

  • The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years

    ( "... a rewarding book." ―Times Literary Supplement Set...)

  • The white ship,
  • Day Lasts More Than 100 Years
  • Farewell Gul'sary
  • The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years Reprint edition by Aitmatov, Chingiz (1988) Paperback

Membership

Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1959; Central Committee of Communist Party of Kirghiz South.S.R. 1969-1971, member since 1971. Commission, for Foreign Affairs of Soviet of Nationalities, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet since 1974. Congress of People"s Deputies of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 1989.

Presidential Cabinet March since 1990.

European Academy of Arts, Science and Humanity 1983, World Academy of Art and Science 1987.

Interests

• Avocations: swimming, horse riding, history research of Middle Asia.

Connections

Married Keres Shamshibaev, October 15, 1951 (divorced). 3 children; Married Maria Urmatov, August 8, 1981.

Father:

Aitmatov Torekul

Mother:

Nahima Aitmatov

Spouse:

Maria Urmatov

Spouse:

Keres Shamshibaev