Mukhtar Magauin

Mukhtar Magauin (2 February 1940 – 9 January 2025) was a Kazakh writer and publicist.

He was head of the literary criticism department at the "Kazakh literature" newspaper in Almaty.

When he was mentioned by the Soviet study experts in the West in the book edited by Edward Allworth as one of the nationalist Kazakh writers (1973), the local Communist rulers put his name to the "black list".

Magauin translated several short stories and novels of the prominent foreign writers (W. Somerset Maugham, H. Rider Haggard, etc.)

Some translations of his writings, such as the short story 'The Archivist' (1973)[1] and an extract from the novel 'Blue Haze' (1972),[2] have appeared in English His use of traditional proverbs has been studied by Zhanar Abdigapbarova.