The following is a List of Azerbaijani-language poets.
North Azerbaijan
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Ashig Alasgar
Ashig Alasgar ( az, Aşıq Ələsgər; 1821 – 7 March 1926) was an Azerbaijani mystic troubadour (Ashik
An ashik ( az, aşıq, ; tr, âşık; fa, عاشیق) or ashugh ( hy, աշուղ; ka, აშუღი) is traditionally a si ...
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Mammad Araz
Mammad Araz ( az, Məmməd Araz, ) (14 October 1933 in Nursu, Nakhchivan – 1 December 2004 in Baku, Azerbaijan), born Mammad Ibrahimov, was an Azerbaijani poet. His pen name was Araz, the Azerbaijani spelling for the Aras river.
Early life
In ...
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Hamid Arzulu
Hamid Arzulu (''Hamid Aliyev''; b. 15 May 1937) is an Azerbaijani poet, writer, translator, dramatist, scientist, teacher and a doctor of philology. He lives in the city of Nakhchivan (city), Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.
Hamid Arzulu is one of the Nak ...
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Aşık Khanlar
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Babi Badalov
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Abbasgulu Bakikhanov
Abbasgulu agha Bakikhanov ( az, Abbasqulu ağa Bakıxanov) (21 June 1794, Amirjan – 31 May 1847, Wadi Fatima, near Jeddah), Abbas Qoli Bakikhanov, or Abbas-Qoli ibn Mirza Mohammad (Taghi) Khan Badkubi was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journa ...
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Vagif Bayatly Oner
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Mirvarid Dilbazi
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Piruz Dilenchi
Pirouz Dilanchi ( az, Piruz Dilənçi; born Ali Ismayilfiruz, علی اسماعیل فیروز; May 1965 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Azerbaijani separatist leader.
He has also written multiple poems and is the author of eight books in Azerb ...
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Teymur Elchin
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Fuzûlî
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Fikrat Goja
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Madina Gulgun
Madina Gulgun ( az, Mədinə Gülgün), born Madina Nurulla qizi Alakbarzadeh (17 January 1926, Baku – 17 February 1991, Baku), was an Iranian-Azerbaijani poet.
Early life and political involvement
Gulgun was born into an Iranian Azeri laboure ...
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Mahammad Hadi
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Izzeddin Hasanoglu
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Almas Ildyrym
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Hamlet Isakhanli
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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 ...
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Jafargulu agha Javanshir
Jafargulu agha Javanshir ( az, Cəfərqulu ağa Məhəmmədhəsən ağa oğlu Sarıcalı-Cavanşir; 1782 or 1787–1866) was an Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani poet, figure and a major-general of the Imperial Russian Army, Russian Army.
Early li ...
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Ahmad Javad
Ahmad Javad ( az, Əhməd Məhəmmədəli oğlu Cavad; May 5, 1892 – October 13, 1937) was an Azerbaijani poet who is best known for writing the words of the National Anthem of Azerbaijan used under the 1918–1920 Democratic Republic of Az ...
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Huseyn Javid
Huseyn Javid ( az, Hüseyn Cavid),was born Huseyn Abdulla oglu Rasizadeh (24 October 1882, Nakhchivan – 5 December 1941, Shevchenko, Tayshetsky District), was a prominent Azerbaijani poet and playwright of the early 20th century. He was one of ...
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Nusrat Kasamanli
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Mikayil Mushfig
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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 ...
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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 eit ...
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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 w ...
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Mammed Said Ordubadi
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Baba Punhan
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Ramiz Rovshan
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Suleyman Rustam
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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 ...
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Abbas Sahhat
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Bahar Shirvani
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Seyid Azim Shirvani
Seyid Azim Shirvani ( az, Seyid Əzim Şirvani; 9 July 1835, Shamakhy – 1 June 1888, Shamakhy) was an Azerbaijani poet and enlightener. He got his first religious education in Iraq. After returning to motherland he refused his spiritual dignity ...
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Khalil Rza Uluturk
Khalil Rza Uluturk ( az, Xəlil Rza Ulutürk), (21 October 1932, Salyan – 22 June 1994, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet.
Education and career
In 1954, he graduated from the Department of Journalism at Azerbaijan State University (currently Baku ...
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Mehdigulu Khan Vafa
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Molla Panah Vagif
Molla Panah ( az, Molla Pənah), better known by his pen-name Vagif (), was an 18th-century Azerbaijani poet, statesman and diplomat. He is regarded as the founder of the realism genre in Azerbaijani poetry. He served as the vizier—the minist ...
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Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh
Bakhtiyar Mahmud oghlu Vahabzadeh (; August 16, 1925 – February 13, 2009) was an Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijani poet, dramatist, lyricist and translator as well as a college professor and politician. He is often regarded as one of the greatest ...
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Aliagha Vahid
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Mirza Shafi Vazeh
Mirza Shafi Vazeh ( az, Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh; ) was an Azerbaijani poet and teacher. Under the pseudonym "Vazeh", which means "expressive, clear", he wrote in both Azerbaijani and Persian, developing the traditions of poetry in both languages ...
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Molla Vali Vidadi
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Samad Vurgun
Samad Vurgun ( az, Səməd Vurğun ; born Samad Yusif oghlu Vekilov;, . March 21, 1906 – May 27, 1956) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, dramatist, public figure, first People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943), academician of Azerbaijan N ...
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Gasim bey Zakir
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Hikmat Ziya
Iranian Azerbaijan
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Piruz Dilenchi
Pirouz Dilanchi ( az, Piruz Dilənçi; born Ali Ismayilfiruz, علی اسماعیل فیروز; May 1965 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Azerbaijani separatist leader.
He has also written multiple poems and is the author of eight books in Azerb ...
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Madina Gulgun
Madina Gulgun ( az, Mədinə Gülgün), born Madina Nurulla qizi Alakbarzadeh (17 January 1926, Baku – 17 February 1991, Baku), was an Iranian-Azerbaijani poet.
Early life and political involvement
Gulgun was born into an Iranian Azeri laboure ...
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Habib Saher
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Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar
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