Poet, dramaturge (b. 24
February 1881, Tbilisi / Azerbaijan – d. 24 July 1959). He had gone to city of
Meshed with his family in 1889. He started his education in Meshed but he
didn’t go on. He had been learning Arabic and Persian for eleven years that he
had been in Meshed. He became a proxy teacher after he had turned back Tbilisi.
He worked as a teacher at different schools for a while. He had started to
write poems with the effect of Fuzûli when he was sixteen. He started his
literary activities in 1907. He considered about liberty fight of Azerbaijan
Public in his poems. He wrote for children too.
WORKS:
NOVEL: Araz (Symptoms).
SHORT
STORY: Müellim (Teacher).
PLAY: Gözel Bahar (Pretty Spring),
Tülkü Hacca Gedir (Tülkü Goes to Hajj),
Tık Tık Hanım (Tap Tap Lady), Kimdir
Haklı (Who is Right), Murad
(Desire), Yahşı Arha (Beautiful Arha), Şelekuyruk, Çoban Memiş (Herdsman
Memiş).
OTHER
WORKS: Gülşenî Edebiyyat (Literature
of Gülşeni), Tülkü ve Horuz (Fox and
Rooster), Bebaht Aile (Unfortunate
Family), Türk Çelengi (Turkish
Garland), Türk Edebiyyatı (Literature
of Turkish), Mektup Yetişmedi (The
Letter isn’t Reach), Göbelek (Naval), Anabacı (Mother), Eşşek Üstünde Seyahat (Journey on the Donkey), Oyuncu Bağalar (Player Tortoiseshells), Tapdık Dede (Grandfather Taptık), Ovçu Mestan (Hunter Mestan),
Nağıllar (Lies), Yaz Gelir
(Summer Comes), Goçpolat (Koç Polat), Nüşâbe Köç (Migrant to Nüşabe), Hâtirelerim (My Memories), Benövşe, Pirin Kerâmeti (Miracle of
Master).
REFERENCE: Zeynelâbidin Makas / Çağdaş Azerbaycan Şiiri Antolojisi (1992), İhsan Işık / Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2007, 2009) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Fomous People (2013).
