Hüseyin Cavid

Dramaturgist, Poet

Birth
24 October, 1882
Death
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Other Names
Gülçin, Arif

Poet and dramaturge (b. 24 October 1882, Nakhchivan / Azerbaijan – d. 1944, Siberia). He wrote Turkish and Persian poems with the nickname Gülçin and Arif. After attending primary school he entered the Manners School. After he finished that, he went to Tabriz. He studied Persian and Arabic in Talibyye School in there. But he didn’t complete his education because of eye illness. He went to İstanbul in order to do higher education, but he had to turn Nakhchivan because of the same illness. He began to trade and he participate in a company which built ways in Georgia. For a while he worked as a teacher in Tbilisi, Baku, Nakhchivan and Ganja. He was investigated because of his writing works against the new system of government and he was sent into exile to Siberia. He worked difficult works in there.

He met Youth Turkists and he wrote feverish poems against system in Russia. Before 1917 Revolution, he turned back his motherland. In 1980 his corpse was taken from Siberia and was buried in Nakhchivan where he was born. 100th year of his birth was celebrated in Baku in 1984 with two year delay. His name was given to a lot of school, street, park and square in Azerbaijan.

WORKS:

Ana (Mother, 1913), Geçmiş Günler (Previous Days, 1913), Maral (Gazelle, 1917), Şeyda (1917-1925), Şeyh Sen’an (Sheik Sen’an1917-1926), Bahar Şebnemleri (Spring Dew, 1917), Edebiyyat Dersleri (Lessons of Literature, 1919), İblis (Devil, 1924-1927), Peygamber (Prophet, 1922-1926), Topal Teymur (Lame Teymur, 1926), Uçurum (Abyss, 1926), Siyavuş (1934).

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