Why Kyrgyz authors do not write best-sellers?
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
By Aizada Kutueva – 24.kg, edited by Galina Toktalieva
Publishing and authoring are in pit
Books are not so popular nowadays as they were before. People, especially young prefer TV and Internet, which to their opinion are easier to comprehend than taking trouble to read books. Such tendency surely affects writers. I am quite sure that the main part of the Kyrgyz population can hardly remember any best-seller, except for Chingiz Aitmatov’s works. I decided to find out why nobody writes best-sellers in Kyrgyzstan and addressed this question to different people in Bishkek.
Elena Voronina, director of organization on children rights protection: – There is no real literature in Kyrgyzstan nowadays, as we have lost true artists, such as Chingiz Aitmatov and Tugelbai Sydykbekov who essentially contributed to the culture of Kyrgyz people before.The world has changed and former values lost their relevance. (more…)

