Mirvarid Dilbazi ( az, Mirvarid Paşa qızı Dilbazi), (19 August 1912, Xanlıqlar,

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– 12 July 2001,

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) was an Azerbaijani poet.

Biography

She was born in the village of Xanlıqlar located in the

Gazakh Qazax (; ) is a city in and the capital of the Gazakh District of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 20,900. Gazakh is a city and administrative district in the west of Azerbaijan, the "western gate" of Azerbaijan. History Early history In ...

. Both of her grandfathers, Haji Rahim and Abdurahman Dilbazi, were poets. In 1921, Mirvarid moved to

and got admitted to the newly established Female Boarding School. After six years of studying, Mirvarid started teaching at elementary school in Bilajari. Upon graduation from

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, she moved to Guba and continued teaching there. Mirvarid Dilbazi's first poem, ''Women's Emancipation'', was published in 1927. Her first book, ''Our Voice'', followed in 1934. After that, she wrote numerous poems and children's books such as ''First Spring'' (1937), ''Love for Motherland'' (1942), ''Memories'' (1945), ''Dream of the Master'' (1948), ''Images of life'' (1967), ''Algerian Girl'' (1961), ''To my younger fellows'' (1956), ''Spring is coming'' (1968), etc.Voices of Azerbaijani History
/ref> Between the 1920s and 1930s, the most burning issue among the Azerbaijani intelligentsia related to women's emancipation. This theme became very popular in literature. For example, there was Jafar Jabbarli's play "Sevil,"1 Mammad Said Ordubadi's "Misty Tabriz,"2 and others. What was meant by women's emancipation was first of all taking off the chadors eils then women's participation in governmental affairs and women's literacy. Women's literacy had been forbidden by the religious leaders. Girls were not taught to write; a few of them had managed to learn how to read a bit of the Quran, which was written in the Arabic script. From her interview:— Dilbazi has also translated works by writers such as

Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

, Khagani and Nizami. In 1979, she was named " People's Poet of Azerbaijan".Respublikanın yaradıcı işçilərinə Azərbaycan SSR fəxri adlarının verilməsi haqqında Azərbaycan SSR Ali Soveti Rəyasət Heyətinin 23 fevral 1979-cu il tarixli Fərmanı
— anl.az President

Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev ( az, Һејдәр Әлирза оғлу Әлијев, italic=no, Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev, ; , ; 10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani politician who served as the third president of Aze ...

awarded her with the

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(''Order of Sovereignty'') in 1998.Oil Boom, Century of Tears
by Mirvarid Dilbazi. Azerbaijan International. Autumn 1999, #7.3 During her long lifetime, Mirvarid witnessed Stalin's Repressions of 1937, the tragic losses of

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, and the

First Nagorno-Karabakh War The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, referred to in Armenia as the Artsakh Liberation War ( hy, Արցախյան ազատամարտ, Artsakhyan azatamart) was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in th ...

. Mirvarid's cousin,

Amina Dilbazi Amina Pasha qizi Dilbazi ( az, Əminə Dilbazi; 26 December 1919, Qazakh, Azerbaijan – 30 April 2010, Baku, Azerbaijan) was an Azerbaijani folk dancer. Biography Cousin of poet Mirvarid Dilbazi, Amina Dilbazi was born in a rural community near ...

, was a well-known Azeri ballet-master and folk-music dancer.

References

External links

Poetry by Mirvarid Dilbazi
Azerbaijan International Magazine {{DEFAULTSORT:Dilbazi, Mirvarid 1912 births 2001 deaths 20th-century Azerbaijani poets People from Qazax District Recipients of the Istiglal Order Azerbaijani women poets 20th-century women writers Azerbaijani feminists Soviet poets