Mukhtar Magauin is a Kazakh writer and publicist. He was born in the district of Chubar-Tau in Semey region (now

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) of

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on 2 February 1940. He graduated at the Kazakh state university (1962) and the doctorate (1965) there. He was head of the literary criticism department at the “Kazakh literature” newspaper in Almaty. He publishes several scholarly articles and books and novels. When he was mentioned by the

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study experts in the West in the book edited by Edward Allworth as one of the nationalist Kazakh writers (1973), the local

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rulers put his name to the “black list”. Most of his renowned uncensored novels were published only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He published the novels “The Yellow Kazakh” (1991), “ABC of the Kazakh History” (1993), “Dreams of Kypchaks” (2004), “The Half” () 2007), etc. In 1997, he became the winner of the International Prize for the Turkic speaking writers and culture workers and he received the prize from Suleiman Demirel, the

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at that time. He is also a holder of the title of the People’s Writer of Kazakhstan. Magauin translated several short stories and novels of the prominent foreign writers (

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, etc.) into Kazakh. Nowadays he lives in

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, the

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External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20110825055638/http://prstr.narod.ru/texts/num0805/arg0805.htm * http://www.azattyk.org/content/Kazakhstan_Culture_Magauin/1950036.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Magauin, Mukhtar Kazakh-language writers Turkic literature 1940 births Living people Al-Farabi Kazakh National University alumni Kazakhstani emigrants to the Czech Republic