Azerbaijani People’s Poet Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh dies

[Baku–APA. Azerbaijani People’s Poet Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh died on Friday. The poet died after a siege of illness, APA reports.

Azerbaijani People’s Poet Bakhtiyar Mahmoud oglu Vahabzadeh was born in 1925 in Shaki. He migrated to Baku in 1934 and studied philology at Azerbaijan State University (1947). He became an assistant at the same department and completed his doctorate with his thesis on the famous Azerbaijani poet Samed Vurgun. He became a member of Azerbaijan Writers Union in 1945, honorary art figure in 1974. He was awarded with the Republican State Prize in 1975 and USSR State Prize in 1984. He was elected a corresponding member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He received the honorary title of Azerbaijani People’s Poet in 1985. He was awarded the Independence Medal in 1995 for his special contribution to the national-freedom movement of Azerbaijan.
Vahabzadeh was an author of more than 70 poetry books, two monographs, 11 scientific-publicist books, more than 20 large poems and hundreds of articles. Vahabzadeh was a member of Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet (1980-1995) and Milli Majlis, Azerbaijani Parliament (1995-2000).
Vahabzadeh was known not only in Azerbaijan, but also outside the country. His works were translated into Russian, Turkish, English French, German, Persian, Spanish, Hungarian, as well as to the languages of peoples of former USSR.