Aliagha Vahid
| Əliağa Məmmədqulu oğlu İsgəndərov | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 February 1895 Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Died | 1 October 1965 (aged 70) Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Occupation | Poet, Ghazal Singer |
| Nationality |  Azerbaijani |
| Literary movement | Meykhana |
| Notable work(s) | Mollaxana |
Aliagha Vahid (Azerbaijani: Əliağa Vahid), born Aliagha Mammadqulu oglu Isgandarov (1895, Baku – 1 October 1965, Baku), was an Azerbaijani poet, Honoured Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943). He was known for reintroducing medieval ghazel style in Soviet Azerbaijani poetry.
[edit] Biography and Creativity
Aliagha Vahid was born on February 18, 1895, in Masazir settlement, in family of a carpenter. From his earliest years he worked as an unskilled laborer and helped his father. His first education he got in madrasah and not finishing it he entered a literary society “Mejmeush-shuara” where he got to know such poets as Muniri, Azer Imamaliyev and other popular poets of Baku of that epoch. Under their creative influence he wrote his first lyrical poems. In his satirical poems of the earliest times of his creativity he criticized social deficiencies in the society, superstition and narrow-mindedness, tyranny and unfairness. These poems would be entered his first collection of poems called “The result of avidity”. Later, under influence of Fuzûlî’s and Seyid Azim’s works he began to write ghazels. His ghazels were popular among the nation and that is why he was called “Ghazelkhan”.
He met the October Revolution and establishment of the Soviet power in Azerbaijan enthusiastically. He actively agitated the Soviet power in his poems and among them were such poems as “To my comrades-laborers and soldiers”, “What does the school mean”, “Elevate, my angel…” and others. In 1924-1925, Sergei Yesenin lived in Baku, in Mardakan village with short breaks. In 1924, these great poets got know each other and later this acquaintanceship turned to a strong friendship.[1] This fact was mentioned in writer-publicist Huseyngulu Najafov’s “May of Balakhany” narrative. After the establishment of the Soviet power and creation of the Azerbaijan SSR he collaborated with “Kommunist” newspaper and satirical magazine “Molla Nasraddin”. In his collections called “Couplets” (1924) and “Mollakhana” (1938) he vented satirical flaw of criticism to opponents of the new system.[2] “Battle ghazels” (1943) and “Ghazels” (1944) books written during the Great Patriotic War ran through love to the Motherland, hatred for the enemy and faith in the victory.
Being the follower of Fuzuli’s literary tendencies, Aliagha Vahid was the eminent representative of the genre-gazel in the Soviet culture. Aliagha Vahid also engaged in translation of ghazels of Nizami, Fuzuli, Khaqani and other classics of Azerbaijani literature into Azerbaijani language. He is assumed to be the founder of meykhana-the modern genre of ghazel.
Aliagha Vahid died at night of September 30 to October 1, in 1965 in Baku and was buried in the Alley of Honor.
[edit] Memory
•A school, park, garden (former Gubernatorial garden), house of literature and a street in Baku were named after Aliagha Vahid.
•In 1990, in the garden, near the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall was put up a bronze bust of the poet, which was moved to Icheri Sheher, in 2009.[3]
•In 1991, in film studio “Azerbaijanfilm” was shot a film called “Ghazelkhan”, dedicated to Vahid’s life and creativity.
[edit] References
- ^ "Литературно-художественный меджлис "Сергей Есенин и Алиага Вахид"". http://www.science.az/ru/news.php?id=28.
- ^ "Əliağa Vahid". http://www.adam.az/az.php?subaction=showfull&id=1206476689&archive=&start_from=&ucat=29,43&go=headlines&category=43.
- ^ "Памятник Вахиду". http://www.window2baku.com/Monuments/mn_vahid.htm.
