Background
AUEZOV, Mukhtar was born on September 28, 1897 in Chingistay Rayon, Scmipalatinsk Uyezd.
AUEZOV, Mukhtar was born on September 28, 1897 in Chingistay Rayon, Scmipalatinsk Uyezd.
1917 graduate Semipalatinsk Teachers’ Seminary. 1928 graduate Leningrad University. 1930 completed postgraduate studies at Centr Asian University.
Deputy, Kazakhstan Supreme Soviet of 1955 and 1959 convocation. Member, Soviet Committee the Defense of Peace. 1960 member, delegate of Soviet writers to United States of America.
Author or many works on Kazakhstan and Kirghizia folklore and Kazakhstan literature. PubL: play “Enlyk Kebek” (1917). “Karakoz” (1926); drama “Khan Kane” (1927).
Novelettes “Hard Times” and “Karash-Karash” (1928). Drama “For October” (1932). Stories “Shoulder to Shoulder” (1933).
“Traces” and “Steepness” (1935). Novels “Abay” (1942-1947). “The Road of Abay” (1952-1956).
Monograph on the epic “Manas”. Translated into Kazakhstan: Gogol's “Revizor” (The Inspector General), Shakespeare's “Othello” and “The Taming of the Shrew” and K. A. Trenev’s “Lyubov Yarovaya” (1936-1944).
Member, Kaz Academy of Sciences from 1946: Honorary Sciences Worker of Kaz Soviet Socialist Republic from 1957.