Tchinguiz Aïtmatov
Tchinguiz Aïtmatov is a Kyrgyz writer born in 1928. After studies at the agricultural Institute of Bichkek, capital of current the Kirghizstan, it is devoted to the translation of Russian writers in Kyrgyz.
Author of New S describing the simple and difficult life in the young Kyrgyz socialist republic, it writes initially in Kyrgyz, in particular Jamilia (1958) and the First Master , who will be adapted to the cinema as of the years 1960, in particular by Andrei Konchalovsky, then young student at the institute of the cinema of the USSR, for a remarkable adaptation of the First Master ( Pervyy uchitel ).
He chooses then the writing in Russian language with He was a white ship (1970) or the red Apple . In the years 1980, it is one of the most recognized writers Soviet Union and is expressed more through novels as One Day longer than one century in which it approaches difficult politico-social sets of themes such as the repression and the rehabilitation of the dissidents, the relationship between modernity and tradition, the safeguarding of the environment. In the Dreams of the she-wolf (the Russian title is translated the Block ), it evokes other taboos of the Soviet company, like the drug trafficking, the self-sacrifice for the good of humanity, the existence of expiatory victims, the religious substrate of the culture. Its books are translated in several languages, in particular in French by Louis Aragon.
Impressed of a deep meditation on the direction of the life, the works of Tchinguiz Aïtmatov also put in scene in a masterly way the Central Asia of the Soviet era.
After the independence of Kirghizstan in 1991, Tchinguiz Aïtmatov becomes a character dominating over the political scene. He is currently ambassador with Brussels.
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