Hello,
the name of this person is Chingiz Aitmatov. Sorry for the view. So, Aitmatov does not live right now anymore, he died in 2008. He would have been 80 in 2009 but happened what had happened. He is the most famous writer in Kyrgyzstan and in the whole Middle Asia. His books were translated into 176 languages and published in more than 80 countries. I will advise you some of his books like : "The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years", " The Girl with the Red Scarf "