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Chinqiz Aitmatov
The collection commemorative coins "Ch. Aitmatov", "Jamila", "Duishen", "Mother field", "Farewell, Gulsary!" and "The white ship" are dedicated to the works of the world-famous Kyrgyz writer, Chingiz Aitmatov, who is one of the most readable modern writers in the world. His works are translated into more than 170 languages and issued in more than 100 countries of the world with the circulation of more than 60 million copies. His works have become an indispensable part of the process of education and building of the society. They are a part of the school and university programs in many world countries.
The coins were issued in circulation on May 4, 2009. The coins are legal tender in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic. The coins are sold in a separate box and in a set consists of six coins. A certificate and a booklet with description of the coin are attached to each coin.
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 "Jamilya" (Jamila) appeared in 1958. 1980 saw his first novel The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years; his next significant novel, The Scaffold was published in 1988. The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years and other writings were translated into several languages. Aitmatov suffered kidney failure and on 16 May 2008 was admitted to a hospital in Nuremberg, Germany, where he died of pneumonia on 10 June 2008, aged 79. After his death, he was flown to Kyrgyzstan, where there were numerous ceremonies before he was buried in Ata Beyit cemetery, which he helped found and where his father most likely is buried, in Chong-Tash village, Alamüdün district, Chüy oblast, Kyrgyzstan.
His obituary in The New York Times characterized him as "a Communist writer whose novels and plays before the collapse of the Soviet Union gave a voice to the people of the remote Soviet republic of Kyrgyz" and adds that he "later became a diplomat and a friend and adviser to the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev." Chinghiz Aitmatov belonged to the post-war generation of writers. His output before "Jamila" was not significant, a few short stories and a short novel called Face to Face. But it was "Jamila" that came to prove the author's work. Louis Aragon described the novelette as the world's most beautiful love story, raising it even above Rudyard Kipling's World's Most Beautiful Love Story. Aitmatov's representative works also include the short novels Farewell, Gulsary!, The White Ship, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, and The Scaffold. Aitmatov was honoured in 1963 with the Lenin Prize for "Jamila" and was later awarded a State prize for Farewell, Gulsary!. Aitmatov's art was glorified by admirers. Even critics of Aitmatov mentioned the high quality of his novels.
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