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Azerbaijani-language Poets
The following is a List of Azerbaijani-language poets. North Azerbaijan *Ashig Alasgar *Mammad Araz *Hamid Arzulu * Aşık Khanlar * Babi Badalov *Abbasgulu Bakikhanov * Vagif Bayatly Oner * Mirvarid Dilbazi *Piruz Dilenchi * Teymur Elchin * Fuzûlî * Fikrat Goja *Madina Gulgun * Mahammad Hadi * Izzeddin Hasanoglu * Almas Ildyrym * Hamlet Isakhanli *Jafar Jabbarly *Jafargulu agha Javanshir *Ahmad Javad *Huseyn Javid * Nusrat Kasamanli * Mikayil Mushfig *Imadaddin Nasimi *Khurshidbanu Natavan *Ali Nazmi * Mammed Said Ordubadi * Baba Punhan * Ramiz Rovshan * Suleyman Rustam *Mirza Alakbar Sabir * Abbas Sahhat * Bahar Shirvani *Seyid Azim Shirvani *Khalil Rza Uluturk * Mehdigulu Khan Vafa *Molla Panah Vagif *Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh * Aliagha Vahid *Mirza Shafi Vazeh * Molla Vali Vidadi *Samad Vurgun * Gasim bey Zakir * Hikmat Ziya Iranian Azerbaijan *Piruz Dilenchi *Madina Gulgun Madina Gulgun ( az, Mədinə Gülgün), born Madina Nurulla qizi Alakbarzadeh (17 January 1926, Baku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashig Alasgar
Ashig Alasgar ( az, Aşıq Ələsgər; 1821 – 7 March 1926) was an Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani mystic troubadour (Ashik) and highly regarded poet of Azerbaijani folk songs. He was born in the village of Azat, Armenia, Aghkilsa in the Nor Bayazet uezd, Goycha District of the Erivan Khanate. Early life Ashig Alasgar was born in 1821 in the village of Azat, Armenia, Aghkilse in the Goycha region. His father Almammad worked as a carpenter. At the same time, he was also known as with his intelligence in literature. Almammad was fairly good at poetry genres such as Gerayly, Qoshma and Bayati. It is predicted that Almammad had a huge impact on Ashiq Alasgar. Ashiq Alasgar grew up in a big and poor family with three brothers and two sisters. He was the eldest son of the family. Due to the financial difficulties in his family, Alasgar was obliged to work on the farm of a rich landowner, Karbalayi Gurban when he was 14. While working here, Alasgar fell in love with 12 years old daug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jafar Jabbarly
Jafar Gafar oglu Jabbarly, ( az, Cəfər Qafar oğlu Cabbarlı, 20 March 1899, Khizi – 31 December 1934, Baku) was an Azerbaijani playwright, poet, director and screenwriter. Life After his father's death in 1902, Jabbarli's mother moved to Baku with her four children. In 1915, Jabbarli graduated from high school and studied electromechanics at Baku Polytechnicum for the next 5 years. In 1920 he was admitted to Azerbaijan State University to study applied medicine but due to his lack of interest soon switched to Oriental studies. In 1923, he started attending lectures at a local theatre to fulfill his interest in drama.Jafar Jabbarli: Life and First Years of Education (archived) Jafar Jabbarli died at the age of 35 of |
Mirza Alakbar Sabir
Mirza Alakbar Sabir ( az, Mirzə Ələkbər Sabir); born Alakbar Zeynalabdin oglu Tahirzadeh (30 May 1862, in Shamakhy – 12 July 1911, in Shamakhy) was an Azerbaijani satirical poet, public figure, philosopher and teacher. He set up a new attitude to classical traditions, rejecting well-trodden ways in poetry. The artistic thought of the Azerbaijani people found expression in Fuzûlî's works. They have been examples of the lyric to this day, and the satirical trend in Azerbaijani literature, and especially in poetry. Life Mirza Alakbar Sabir was born on May 30, 1862 in Shamakhi into a poor family. At that time the religion Islam dominated in the society. His mother, Saltanat, was a religious Muslim. His father Zeynalabdin Tahirzadeh was a merchant. He had 7 sisters and a brother. He received his primary education in a theological school. Sabir was brought up in a patriarchal-religious atmosphere. In 1874, when he was twelve years old, Alakbar entered the school of Seyid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suleyman Rustam
Suleyman Rustam ( az, Süleyman Rüstəm; 12 March 1906 – 10 June 1989) was poet of Soviet Azerbaijan, playwright and a public figure. He was the poet of the Azerbaijan SSR (1960), laureate of the Stalin State Prize of the second degree (1950), Hero of Socialist Labour (1976) and a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1940. Biography Suleyman Rustam was born on March 12, 1906, in Novxanı village in family of a blacksmith. He studied at Russo-Tatar school until revolution. Suleyman Rustam wrote that, Suleyman Sani Akhundov, who was the headmaster and pedagogue at the school evoked his interest to literature and such famous pedagogues as M.Vezirov, R.Tahirov and A.Israfilbeyli strengthened this interest. After he entered Baku Electric Technical School and then to the eastern faculty of Baku State University where his classmates were Jafar Jabbarly, A.Badalbeyli, V.Khuluflu and was taught by such pedagogue as the eminent writer Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramiz Rovshan
Ramiz Mammadali Oglu Aliev ( az, Ramiz Məmmədəli oğlu Əliyev) (15 December 1946, Amirjan, Baku - ) better known by his pen name Rovshan ( az, Rövşən) is Azerbaijani poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ..., writer and translator. The national poet of Azerbaijan (2019). Poet and film script writer Ramiz Rovshan was born in Baku on December 15, 1946. Rovshan graduated from the Philology Faculty of Azerbaijan State University (1969). He took a two-year filmmaking course in Moscow in 1978. He is the author of several poetry books such as "One Rainy Song" (1970), "The Sky Can’t Hold a Stone" (1987) and "Butterfly Wings" (1999), novels and stories "Stone" (1979), "Pain" (1978), "Stories of Amirjan" (2001), "Breath" (2006) etc. Several films are based on his scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baba Punhan
Baba Punhan, born Atababa Seyidali oghlu Madatzadeh ( az, Baba Pünhan), (5 November 1948, Baku – 17 April 2004, Baku, Azerbaijan), was an Azerbaijani poet. Biography He was called up for military service in 1968, which he served in Kiev. He was praised for popularising Azenglish in Azerbaijani literature. Music Throughout his career he composed numerous pieces of meykhana based on modern Azerbaijan. List of works Baba Punhan published about 278 ghazal The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a ...s. His most well-known books include: *''Acı həqiqət'' (Sad Truth, 2000) *''Yalan çeynəyə–çeynəyə'' (Chewing Lies, 2000) *''Mən nə dedim ki ...'' (What have I said..., 2004) References External links * reprinted in an Azerbaijani magazine in 2005 Azerbaija ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mammed Said Ordubadi
Mammad Said Ordubadi ( az, Məmməd Səid Ordubadi; 24 March 1872, Ordubad - 1 May 1950, Baku) was Azerbaijani writer, poet, playwright and journalist. Ordubadi, started his career as a poet. His articles and poetry were published in many of the magazines in Azerbaijani language at that time. During the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, Ordubadi joined Muslim Social Democratic Party (Hummet). He then published ''Bloody Years'' about the clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani populations in 1905. In 1918, he joined to Communist Party and his articles have published in the official newspaper of Hummet organization. He, along with XI Red Army, goes to Dagestan and publishes ''Red Dagestan'' magazine there. After the Sovietization of Azerbaijan he returns to Baku. Today, Ordubadi is remembered as one of the most important intellectuals of Azerbaijan during Soviet era. He served twice as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR, the highest legislative institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Nazmi
Ali Nazmi ( az, Əli Nəzmi, pen name of Ali Mammadzadeh (''Əli Məmmədzadə''), 1878, Sarov–January 1, 1946, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet, a representative of the 20th-century Azerbaijani realism and successor of Mirza Alakbar Sabir. Nazmi was the first translator of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' into Azerbaijani. Nazmi's first poem ''A Start to the Village'' was published in 1904. In 1926-1931 Nazmi was a secretary of ''Molla Nasraddin'' magazine. During the Soviet-German War he wrote several satire Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming ...s: ''Hitler's Union with Devil'', ''Wolf's Protest Against God'', ''My Homeland'' and others. Nazmi strived for the purity of Azerbaijani language against Pan-Turkists and Panislamists.''Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia'' (1980), vol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khurshidbanu Natavan
Khurshidbanu Natavan ( az, خورشیدبانو ناتوان / Xurşidbanu Natəvan; 6 August 1832 – 2 October 1897) was an Azerbaijani poet and philanthropist. She is considered one of the best lyrical poets of Azerbaijan. Her poems are in either Azerbaijani or Persian and she was most notable for her lyrical ghazals. Natavan was the daughter of Mehdigulu Khan, the last ruler of the Karabakh Khanate (1748–1822). Life Natavan was born on August 5, 1832 in Shusha, a town in present-day Azerbaijan, in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, to Mehdigulu Khan (1763-1845) and Badir Jahan Begüm (1802-1861). Being the only child in the family and descending from Panah Ali Khan, she was the only heir of the Karabakh khan, known to general public as the "daughter of the khan" ( az, Xan qızı). Her name Khurshid Banu ( fa, خورشیدبانو) is from Persian and means "Lady Sun". Her pen name ''Natavan'' () is also from Persian and means ''powerless''. She was named after her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imadaddin Nasimi
Alī Imādud-Dīn Nasīmī ( az, Seyid Əli İmadəddin Nəsimi سئید علی عمادالدّین نسیمی, fa, عمادالدین نسیمی), often known as Nesimi, was a 14th-century Azerbaijani Ḥurūfī poet. Known mostly by his pen name of Nasimi, he wrote in Azerbaijani, Persian and sometimes Arabic, being the composer of one ''divan'' in Azerbaijani, one in Persian, and a number of poems in Turkish and Arabic. He is considered one of the greatest Turkic mystical poets of the late 14th and early 15th centuries and one of the most prominent early divan masters in Turkic literary history. According to the third edition of the ''Encyclopedia of Islam'' Nasimi "is considered to be the true founder" of Turkic classical''ʿarūḍ'' poetry. Name and titles The third edition of the ''Encyclopedia of Islam'' notes that according to some sources, including Sibṭ Ibn al-ʿAjamī (died 1415), Nasimi's given name was Ali. The name "Nasimi" was the pen name (''makhla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikayil Mushfig
Mikayil Mushfig ( az, Mikayıl Müşfiq, born Mikayil Ismayilzade) (5 June 1908, Baku – 6 January 1938, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet of the 1930s. Most of his poetry is about romance, nature, feelings. Despite this, he soon became one of the slandered and criticized poets in the Union of Soviet Azerbaijani Writers, and soon afterwards, Mushfig was arrested and executed by Soviet authorities at the age of 30 during the Stalinist purges in the USSR. In 1956, he was exonerated posthumously. Nikita Khrushchev era of de-stalinization has resulted in Mushfig's poetry being famous in Azerbaijani society. Life and poetry Mikayil Mushfig was born in the city of Baku of Baku Governorate in 1908. His father Mirza Abdulgadir Ismayilzade was a teacher and a poet. He lost his parents in early childhood, so was brought up by the relatives. He received his elementary education at Russian-language School in Baku. After the establishment of the Soviet regime in Azerbaijan in 1920, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nusrat Kasamanli
Nusrat Kasamanli ( az, Nüsrət Yusif oğlu Kəsəmənli) (September 25/29 1946, Qazakh – October 16, 2003, Tabriz) was Azerbaijani poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte .... Works Throughout his career he wrote: * Sevirsənsə (If you love), 1971 * Gözlərimin qarası (Apple of my eyes), 1975 * Özümə bənzədiyim günlər (Days adorned for myself), 1979 * Gümüş yuxular (Silver dreams), 1981 * Təklikdə danışaq (Let's talk alone), 1983 References * * Azerbaijani poets 1946 births 2003 deaths People from Qazax 20th-century Azerbaijani poets Recipients of the Azerbaijan SSR Lenin Komsomol Prize {{Azerbaijan-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
