Jafar Gafar oglu Jabbarly, ( az, Cəfər Qafar oğlu Cabbarlı, 20 March 1899,

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– 31 December 1934,

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) was an

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i playwright, poet, director and screenwriter.

Life

After his father's death in 1902, Jabbarli's mother moved to

with her four children. In 1915, Jabbarli graduated from high school and studied

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for the next 5 years. In 1920 he was admitted to Azerbaijan State University to study applied

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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 Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

.Jafar Jabbarli: Life and First Years of Education
(archived) Jafar Jabbarli died at the age of 35 of

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and was buried at the

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. The national film studio, ''

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'', a street and a

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in Baku are named after him. On 22 May 1985 the museum "Jafar Jabbarli memorial house" was opened. It is located in the house on I. Gutgashinli street 44 (former G. Sultanov street), where Jafar Jabbarli used to live.

Literature, theatre and film

Jafar Jabbarli started writing poems in his early teenage years and was reported to have had his first poems published in the

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newspaper ''Hagigat-i Afkar'' in 1911. In the following years, he wrote more than 20 plays, as well as poems, essays, short stories, and articles. His works were very much influenced by the 1920s propaganda of

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glory and celebrated appropriate themes such as equality, labour, education, cosmopolitanism, emancipation of women, cultural shifts, etc. Jabbarli's major accomplishment in introducing

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an plays to average Azerbaijanis was translating

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's ''

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'' into Azerbaijani. In in 1925 and directing it at the Azerbaijan Drama Theatre a year later. Jafar Jabbarli is considered the founder of screenwriting in Azerbaijan. Two of his plays, ''

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'' and ''Almaz'', both written in 1928, were made into films in 1929 and 1936 respectively. Both focused on the theme of the role of women, their oppression, struggle, and ultimately, victory over dated patriarchal traditions.Jafar Jabbarly: Film Activity
(archived)

References

External links

Cafarcabbarli.com
(archived)

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Life

Literature, theatre and film

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