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'''Mukhtar Magauin''' is a Kazakh writer and publicist. He was born in the district of [[Chubar-Tau]] in Semey region (now [[East Kazakhstan Province]]) of [[Kazakhstan]] 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 [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] study experts in the West in the book edited by Edward Allworth as one of the nationalist [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] writers (1973), the local [[Communist]] 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 languages|Turkic]] speaking writers and culture workers and he received the prize from Suleiman [[Demirel]], the [[Turkey|Turkish]] [[President]] 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 ([[W. Somerset Maugham|William Somerset Maugham]], [[H. Rider Haggard|Henry Rider Haggard]], etc.) into Kazakh. Nowadays he lives in [[Prague]], the [[Czech Republic]].

==External links==
* http://prstr.narod.ru/texts/num0805/arg0805.htm
* http://www.azattyk.org/content/Kazakhstan_Culture_Magauin/1950036.html

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