Vugar Ahmad

Vugar Ahmad
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Native name	Azerbaijani: Vüqar Əhməd
Born	(1963-04-17)April 17, 1963
Citizenship	Azerbaijan
Spouse	Sabina Ahmadova
Children	Almakhanim Ahmadli
Website
vuqar-ahmed.com

Vugar Mikail oglu Ahmad – azerbaijani poet, literary critic, scientist. Since 2003, he has been a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was elected an academician of the Institute of the History of the Peoples of Central Asia named after A. Makhpirat of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Turan Academy of Sciences and a member of the International Academy for the Study of the Turkic World, awarded the International Order "Golden Star" for service to the Turkic world. In 2021, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Life

Vugar Ahmad was born in Baku on 17 April 1963. He graduated from secondary school No.18 named after M.Mushfig in 1980, the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University with “Honors” diploma in 1984, and postgraduate study from the Pedagogical University in 1990 successfully. He worked as a literature teacher in the Darakand village of Shamakhy district in 1984-1987. In different years V.Ahmad worked as chief editor of the publishing house “Azerbaijani world” and “Novruz” newspaper, the deputy chairman of the Trade Union of Mass Media, as well as in various responsible positions in the Azerbaijani Television and Radio from 2005 until 1987. Meanwhile he is senior scientific worker at the Institute of Literature named after Nizami Ganjavi of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He was a professor of Azerbaijan Institute of Teachers (2005-2011). Vugar Ahmad defended the degree of candidate in philology in 1992 and doctor of philology sciences in 2005. He is married and has a son and a daughter.

Scientific performance indicators

Vugar Ahmad is an author of 33 books like “Russian children's literature and Azerbaijan” (Baku, 1992), “Mirjafar Pishavari: his life, environment and creativity” (Baku, 1998), “Azerbaijan children's literature” (Baku, 2006), “Literary criticism” (Baku, 2007), “Sheikh Muhammad Khiyabani”, “Scientific-philological researches” (Baku, 2010) etc., as well as 4 textbooks for high schools and more than 300 scientific and publicistic articles. His works have been published in Iran, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Georgia and other countries. He has promoted Azerbaijan as a scientist at conferences in Iran, Russia, Turkey and Sweden.

Creative activity

He is also an author and a compositor of more than 500 songs. It was held his recitals in Moscow, Tehran and Baku. It has published his novel “Karabakh's dream, or victory in dream”, reflecting the history of South Azerbaijan and Karabakh, “Garadaglilar” novel trilogy and is the “Azerbaijan until last breath” dedicated to Mammadamin Rasulzadeh. When V.Ahmad worked in AZTV channel, he was an editor and presenter of about 200 programs, television movie. With his leadership and editorship a great mugham project was filmed in ATV channel.