Cengiz Aytmatov, (Kyrgyz: Чыңгыз Айтматов (Çıňğız Aytmatov), Russian: Чингиз Торекулович Айтматов) (b. 12 December 1 928, Kyrgyzstan - 10 June 2008, Germany). Famous Kyrgyz Turk writer, journalist, translator and politician. He was born on December 12, 1928 in the village of Sheker of Talas province in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. His father, Torekul Aytmatov, was a distinguished statesman in Soviet Kyrgyzstan, but was arrested in 1937 and executed by firing squad in 1938. His mother, Nagima Hamziyevna Abdulvaliyeva, a Tatar girl, was a theater actress. Its name was inspired by Genghis Khan. His youth coincided with a troubled period. At that time, he had to struggle with the political system that was just beginning to establish itself, and also with the war. He started working at a very young age; because II. The effects of World War II on the USSR also affected young people. Since adults were at war, young people had a great responsibility. At the age of fourteen, he joined the secretariat in his village. Here he worked in jobs such as counting agricultural machinery and tax collector. From his village, he went to Kazakhstan and studied at Cambul Veterinary Technical School. Later, he went to Bishkek, the current capital of Kyrgyzstan, and continued his education at the Frunze Agricultural Institute. He then transferred to the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute and studied in Moscow between 1956 and 1958. He started writing in the Pravda newspaper in these years. He became famous with his works and was accepted as a member of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1957. He received the Lenin Prize in 1963. His works have been translated into more than one hundred and fifty languages. He represented the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation as ambassador between 1990 and 1994, and then the Kyrgyz Republic until 2008. Aytmatov fell ill on May 16, 2008, in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, where he went to film the movie of his novel "A Day Will Be Worth a Centuries" and was brought to Germany for treatment with a diagnosis of kidney failure. Cengiz Aytmatov, who was treated at the Clinicum Nord in Nuremberg, Germany, fell into a coma. He died in Nuremberg on June 10, 2008.

Full name:

Чыңгыз Айтматов (Çıňğız Aytmatov)

Title:

Edebiyatçı, Gazeteci, Çevirmen ve Siyasetçi

Birth:

Kırgızistan, 12 December 1928

Death:

Almanya, 10 June 2008

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