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Chingiz Aitmatov

1928–2008 · 20th century

Chingiz Aitmatov was a Kyrgyz writer, the best-known author of Soviet Central Asia, who wrote in both Kyrgyz and Russian. His novella Jamilia, published in 1958, brought him international fame, and The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, published in 1980, introduced the image of the mankurt, a slave robbed of memory. He later served as a diplomat for the Soviet Union and Kyrgyzstan.

Chingiz Aitmatov
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