Chingiz Aitmatov Quotes
Writer
Chingiz Aitmatov was writer from KG
“The hardest thing in life is to remain human.”— Chingiz Aitmatov
Aitmatov was not speaking in abstractions. His father, a prominent Kyrgyz political figure, was executed in 1938 during Stalin's purges. Chingiz grew up fatherless in a country ruled by fear. His entire body of work is about people the system tried to crush. This is not a polished phrase. It is a verdict from a man who watched how easily a person can stop being one.
The Story of Chingiz
Brussels
In 1990, Aitmatov became the ambassador of the USSR, and later Kyrgyzstan, to Belgium and the Benelux countries. He lived in Brussels for 18 years and kept writing throughout. His final novel, When the Mountains Fall, also known as The Eternal Bride, came out in 2006. Aitmatov died on June 10, 2008, in Nuremberg, Germany, from kidney failure. He was 79 years old. He was buried in Bishkek at the Ata-Beit memorial cemetery, next to the remains of those executed in 1938. Next to his father.
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