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Chinghiz Aitmatov

Soviet and Kyrgyz author (1928-2008) · Kyrgyzstan · Writers · Died at 79

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Chinghiz Aitmatov wrote in Russian and Kyrgyz, straddling two languages and becoming the most recognized literary voice of Kyrgyzstan - a writer who put a small Central Asian republic on the world's reading map.

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A life in dates

2008Died10 June 2008Friendship OrderAward2000Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of MeritAward1999Order of FatherlandAward1998Order of Outstanding MeritAward1997Hero of the Kyrgyz RepublicAward1993Austrian State Prize for European LiteratureAward1988Order of the October RevolutionAward1984Order of Friendship of PeoplesAward1978Order of LeninAward1977USSR State PrizeAward1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"Award1968USSR State PrizeAward1963Lenin PrizeAward1958Medal "For Distinguished Labour"Award1928Born12 December 1928

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Awards

Friendship Order2008
Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan"2006
Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit2000
Order of Manas, 1st class1999
Order of Fatherland1999
Order of Friendship1998
Order of Outstanding Merit1998
Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic1997
Order of Friendship1995
Austrian State Prize for European Literature1993
Friedrich-Rückert-Preis1992
Order of the October Revolution1988
Order of Friendship of Peoples1984
USSR State Prize1983
Hero of Socialist Labour1978
Order of Lenin1978
USSR State Prize1977
Order of Lenin1971
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"1970
USSR State Prize1968
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1967
Lenin Prize1963
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1962
Medal "For Distinguished Labour"1958
Alexander Men Prize
Medal of Krupskaya
Order of the Smile
Hungarian Order of Merit
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Order of Manas
International Alisher Navoi Prize

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About this person

Born on 12 December 1928, Aitmatov grew up in Kyrgyzstan and chose to work across linguistic borders, writing primarily in Russian but also in his native Kyrgyz. That dual practice let him reach Soviet readers while anchoring his work in the culture of his homeland. Over decades he built a body of fiction that made him the defining figure in Kyrgyz literature, a status that held until his death on 10 June 2008.

Country
Kyrgyzstan
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1928 to 2008 · aged 79

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