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Mukhtar Shakhanov is an outstanding Qazaq poet, whose works have been translated into more than 30 languages of the world. At the age of 9, his father died and he needed to earn for living. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a tractor driver. Among his latest positions is the title of an Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Qazaqstan to the Kyrgyz Republic.

He is an alumni of Chimkent State Pedagogical Institute.

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Mukhtar Shakhanov made a significant contribution to world literature. He is a national writer of the Republic of Qazaqstan, a national poet of the Kyrgyz Republic, an academician of the International California Academy of Industry, Education and Arts USA , a member and an honorary professor of several local and foreign academies and universities, a laureate of the United Nations Environment Program.

He is one of those who were at the forefront of the Qazaq democracy movement. The peaceful demonstration of youth in Almaty in December was the first open protest against the totalitarian regime. This democratic movement, that later pushed awakening of the self-consciousness of the masses in all the republics of the Soviet Union, was ruthlessly suppressed, and its participants without trial were imprisoned.

Talking and writing about the December events in Almaty was strictly forbidden.