Ali Nazmi ( az, Əli Nəzmi, pen name of Ali Mammadzadeh (''Əli Məmmədzadə''), 1878, Sarov–January 1, 1946, Baku) was an

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

i poet, a representative of the 20th-century Azerbaijani

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and successor 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 atti ...

. Nazmi was the first translator of

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's ''

King Lear ''King Lear'' is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane ...

'' 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 Nasreddin () or Nasreddin Hodja (other variants include: Mullah Nasreddin Hooja, Nasruddin Hodja, Mullah Nasruddin, Mullah Nasriddin, Khoja Nasriddin) (1208-1285) is a character in the folklore of the Muslim world from Arabia to Central Asia ...

'' magazine. During the

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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. 4, p. 167

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Works

*''Sijimqulunamə'' (''Sijimguluname''), Baku, 1927 *''Seçilmiş əsərləri'' (''Selected Works''), Baku, 1959 *''Şerlər'' (''Poems''), Baku, 1963 {{DEFAULTSORT:Nazmi, Ali 1878 births 1946 deaths Azerbaijani poets Azerbaijani translators Azerbaijani satirists Male poets from the Russian Empire Soviet poets