This week marks the culmination of a yearlong celebration in Kyrgyzstan of the writer and thinker Chingiz Aitmatov, who died on June 10, a few months short of his 80th birthday. Aitmatov is revered ...

Chingiz Aitmatov, one of the most gifted writers of the Soviet era, and Central Asia’s leading novelist, died from pneumonia in a clinic in Nuremberg on Tuesday. He was 79. At a meeting once on the ...

A Kyrgyz author and statesman Chingiz Aitmatov, whose fame reached beyond his country’s borders and books are read with great admiration all over the world, was born 91 years ago today. He was born on ...

Kyrgyz author and statesman; Born December 12, 1928; Died June 10, 2008. Chingiz Aitmatov, who has died of pneumonia aged 79, was a Kyrgyz author who introduced his mountainous Central Asian nation to ...

This year’s Kyrgyz Oscar contender is a scenically splendid if dramatically uneven tale of stormy rural childhood. Previously filmed 45 years ago under its original title, leading Soviet-era Kyrgyz ...

In 1988, Chingiz Aitmatov signed a copy of his 1980 novel The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years for Azamat Altay. “I dedicate this to Abutalip, who is alive,” Aitmatov wrote, “and he is Azamat Altay ...

He had suffered lung and kidney failure after falling ill three weeks ago while on a film set. On May 16, Aitmatov was in the central Russian city of Kazan, where a Russian film crew was making a film ...

The author of the acclaimed novel “The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years,” would have been 85 years old on Dec. 12. When I was finishing school in the late 1980s, in the anarchic and utopian times ...

Prominent author Chinghiz Aitmatov is regarded as the voice of Kyrgyz people during Soviet Union. He was born on Dec. 12, 1928 in the village of Sheker near the Chinese border in Kyrgyzstan. He is ...

Link: Kyrgyzstan: World-Renowned Author Aitmatov In Serious Condition - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY. The legendary Kyrgyz author Chingiz Aitmatov is in a hospital in Nuremberg, reportedly in a ...

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