WRITER

Mukhtar Auezov

1897 - 1961

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Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov (Kazakh: Mūhtar Omarhanūly Äuezov, Мұхтар Омарханұлы Әуезов, مۇحتار ومارحانۇلى اۋەزوۆ, Kazakh pronunciation: [mo̙χtɑɾ ɔmɑɾˈχɑno̙lɯ æwˈjezəf]; Russian: Мухта́р Омарха́нович Ауэ́зов, Mukhtar Omarkhanovich Auezov; 28 September 1897 – 27 June 1961) was a Kazakh writer, a social activist, a Doctor of Philology, and an honored academician of the Soviet Union (1946). Auezov's writings were influenced by the Kazakh poet Abai Qunanbaiuly. Mukhtar's father and grandfather Omarkhan Auez both highly revered the poet, who was a neighbour and a friend of the Auezov family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mukhtar Auezov has received more than 115,460 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Mukhtar Auezov is the 1,351st most popular writer (up from 1,414th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (up from 506th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Kazakhstani Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mukhtar Auezov ranks 1,351 out of 7,302Before him are Adalberon, Edith Södergran, Georgi Markov, Abu Tammam, Ignazio Silone, and Quintus Fabius Pictor. After him are Nikolaus Lenau, Xavier de Maistre, Jean M. Auel, Robert de Montesquiou, Rudolf Erich Raspe, and Daniel Pennac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Mukhtar Auezov ranks 70Before him are Vito Genovese, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Karl Löwith, Hans Baur, Sidney Bechet, and Adolf Heusinger. After him are Thornton Wilder, Sepp Herberger, Philippe Soupault, Károly Kerényi, Jean Epstein, and Virginia Henderson. Among people deceased in 1961, Mukhtar Auezov ranks 29Before him are Lee de Forest, Akiba Rubinstein, Blaise Cendrars, Arthur Drewry, Wolfgang von Trips, and Eero Saarinen. After him are Karl Korsch, Zoltán Tildy, Maria Valtorta, Paul Wittgenstein, Princess Isabelle of Orléans, and Mei Lanfang.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Mukhtar Auezov ranks 17 out of 193Before him are Aslan Maskhadov (1951), Tughlugh Timur (1329), Edigu (1352), Ablai Khan (1711), Shoqan Walikhanov (1835), and Aleksandr Viktorenko (1947). After him are Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (1952), Dinmukhamed Kunaev (1912), Oleg Yankovsky (1944), Toktar Aubakirov (1946), Abul Khair Khan (1693), and Aliya Moldagulova (1925).

Among WRITERS In Kazakhstan

Among writers born in Kazakhstan, Mukhtar Auezov ranks 3Before him are Ahmad Yasawi (1103), and Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845). After him are Mukaghali Makatayev (1931), Ybyrai Altynsarin (1841), Saken Seifullin (1894), Vsevolod Ivanov (1895), Alexander Volkov (1891), Alexander Kazantsev (1906), and Sergei Lukyanenko (1968).