WRITER

Chinghiz Aitmatov

1928 - 2008

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Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov (12 December 1928 – 10 June 2008) was a Kyrgyz author who wrote mainly in Russian, but also in Kyrgyz. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chinghiz Aitmatov has received more than 484,705 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Chinghiz Aitmatov is the 233rd most popular writer (down from 207th in 2019), the most popular biography from Kyrgyzstan (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Kirghiz Writer.

Chinghiz Aitmatov is most famous for his novel, "The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years."

Memorability Metrics

  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 78

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Tales of Mountains and Steppes
1978
Tales of Mountains and Steppes
1978

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Chinghiz Aitmatov ranks 233 out of 7,302. Before him are Dario Fo, Herman Melville, Snorri Sturluson, Mikhail Bulgakov, Shams Tabrizi, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. After him are Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jaroslav Hašek, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frédéric Mistral, Isabel Allende, and Jacob Grimm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Chinghiz Aitmatov ranks 13. Before him are John Forbes Nash Jr., Noam Chomsky, Agnès Varda, Eduard Shevardnadze, Serge Gainsbourg, and James Watson. After him are Roger Vadim, Osamu Tezuka, Philip K. Dick, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Rinus Michels, and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Among people deceased in 2008, Chinghiz Aitmatov ranks 8. Before him are Bobby Fischer, Edmund Hillary, Yves Saint Laurent, Suharto, Paul Newman, and Samuel P. Huntington. After him are Albert Hofmann, Irena Sendler, Charlton Heston, Arthur C. Clarke, Miriam Makeba, and Mahmoud Darwish.

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In Kyrgyzstan

Among people born in Kyrgyzstan, Chinghiz Aitmatov ranks 1 out of 62. After him are Yūsuf Balasaguni (1020), Mikhail Frunze (1885), Askar Akayev (1944), Roza Otunbayeva (1950), Kurmanbek Bakiyev (1949), Sabuktigin (942), Vitali Klitschko (1971), Almazbek Atambayev (1956), Sadyr Japarov (1968), Sooronbay Jeenbekov (1958), and Kurmanjan Datka (1811).

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Among WRITERS In Kyrgyzstan

Among writers born in Kyrgyzstan, Chinghiz Aitmatov ranks 1. After him are Alykul Osmonov (1915).

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