Chyngyz Aitmatov

Chyngyz Aitmatov was a famous kyrghyz writer.Chyngyz Aitmatov is one of the most popular writers today.His books were translated into more than 80 languages.At 35 he was awarded the Lenin prize. The well-known French writer Louis Aragon (1897-1982)described one of his novels,"Jamilya",as the most wonderful love story in the world. Chyngyz Aitmatov was born in 1928 in the mountain village of Sheker in the Talas valley where the epic hero Manas lived. He was brought up by gradma Aimkan an endless source of fairy tales and old songs. The boy listened for hours to her stories. Chyngyz attended an agricultural secondary school, then an agricultural institute from which he graduated with distinction. After that he worked as a veterinary surgeon. Then he suddenly decided to go to Moscow and studied in the Gorky Literary Institute.At 30 he published his first story and five years later his name became known to millions of readers.