Jamila chingiz aitmatov summary

His more than thirty novels represent honestly the Soviet experience and the social and moral dilemmas that Central Asian people endured. He wrote about love, heroism, friendship, nature, inequality between men and women, oppression, cultural traditions, and the importance of education. Aitmatov was also a diplomat and political figure who worked to advance education, promote Kyrgyz culture, preserve the environment, and even brought international thinkers together to abate the risk of nuclear war.

The recipient of numerous literary medals, awards, and honors, in , right before his passing, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature. In Kyrgyzstan, there are many hearts who consider him a hero of Central Asia. Chingiz Aitmatov was born on December 12, , in the village of Sheker, in the Talas region of Kyrgyzstan. Aitmatov was born to a Kyrgyz father and a Tatar mother.

His father, Torekul Aitmatov was one of the first Kyrgyz communists and was the second secretary of the Kyrgyz Regional Committee; his mother, Nagima Khamzievna Aitmatova was an actor and also an ardent communist. She also wished to abolish Islam from Kyrgyz society. After, Aitmatov was raised by his mother and grandmother. His grandmother, a Kyrgyz national, wanted to ensure Kyrgyz culture and traditions played a role in his life; she took him to traditional Kyrgyz weddings, festivals, funerals, local musical and dance performances and to meetings with Kyrgyz storytellers.

His mother still wanted him to be successful within the Soviet state and taught him to speak Russian and sparked his love of Russian literature.

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Aitmatov studied at a Soviet school in the village of Sheker until the age of fourteen. Then, during the Second World War, and the economic upheaval it brought the Soviet Union, Aitmatov was forced to drop out of school and find work. However, he was the most literate person in his village even at age fourteen, and was soon offered a position as Secretary of the Village Council, where his tasks involved taking inventories of agricultural equipment and ensuring tax collection.