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).
