In 1994, he was a member of the jury at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years and other writings were translated into several languages. ġ980 saw his first novel ''The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years'' his next significant novel, The Place of the Skull, was published in 1987. In 1971, he was a member of the jury at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1961, he was a member of the jury at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival. His first two publications appeared in 1952 in Russian: 'The Newspaper Boy Dziuio' and 'Ашым.' His first work published in Kyrgyz was 'Ак Жаан' (White rain, 1954), and his well-known work ' Jamila' (Jamila) appeared in 1958. For the next eight years he worked for Pravda. In 1946, he began studying at the Animal Husbandry Division of the Kirghiz Agricultural Institute in Frunze, but later switched to literary studies at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, where he lived from 1956-58. He later held jobs as a tax collector, a loader, an engineer's assistant and continued with many other types of work. At fourteen, he was an assistant to the Secretary at the Village Soviet. The future author studied at a Soviet school in Sheker. Īitmatov lived at a time when Kyrgyzstan was being transformed from one of the most remote lands of the Russian Empire to a republic of the USSR. In 1937, his father was charged with ' bourgeois nationalism' in Moscow, arrested, and executed in 1938.

Aitmatov's parents were civil servants in Sheker. He was born to a Kyrgyz father and Tatar mother.

He is one of the best known figures in Kyrgyzstan's literature. Jamila, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred YearsĬhinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov (as transliterated from Russian Kyrgyz: Чыңгыз Төрөкулович Айтматов, romanized: Chynggyz Törökulovich Aytmatov 12 December 1928 – 10 June 2008) was a Kyrgyz author who wrote mainly in Russian, but also in Kyrgyz.

ගුරු ගීතය by Chingiz Aitmatov