Gasham Najafzade (Najafov Gasham Mirza oglu; born April 1, 1959, Aligulular of the Imishli region of the Azerbaijan SSR) is an Azerbaijani poet.
| Gasham Najafzadeh | |
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| Date of Birth | April 1, 1959 (aged 60) |
| Place of Birth | Aliguluar village, Imishli district , Azerbaijan SSR |
| Citizenship |  USSR → |
| Occupation | lyricist |
| Direction | lyrics |
| Language of Works | Azerbaijani |
| Gasham Najafzadeh official website | |
In 1981 he graduated from the Faculty of Language and Literature of Ganja State University. In 1997 he became a member of the Writers Union of Azerbaijan. For a long time he worked as a teacher of the Azerbaijani language and literature in Imishli and in Baku. He worked as executive secretary of the newspaper "Culture".
Currently, he is a member of the board of the Azerbaijan Writers Union, head of the children's literature department, deputy poetry department of the Azerbaijan magazine, a member of the expert group at the national radio and television council, and also works as a senior lecturer at Tafakkur University.
In 2007 he participated in the 38th International Festival of Poetry, held in Holland. In 2006 he was awarded the Tofig Mahmoud Prize, while in 2008 he received the Rasul Rza International Prize.
His poems have been translated into more than 20 languages of the world - into English, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, French, German, Albanian, Tamil, Georgian, Russian, Spanish, Persian, Polish and other languages. So far, 22 books of the poet have been printed. Five of these books were published in foreign countries. The father of two sons and one daughter.
Works
- “Do not tell me about the end of love” Baku, Pagans - 1986.
- "Panorama of the sleeping sea" Baku, Ganjlik - 1990
- “The bride who grieves before the sea waves” Baku, Goiturk - 1994.
- “Laughing Tree” Baku, Goiturk - 1995.
- “The Fate of Poems” Baku, Goiturk - 1995.
- “I want to love again” Baku, Goiturk - 1996.
- “The Yellow String” Baku, Goiturk - 1997.
- “When I Remember You” Baku, Ganun - 1997.
- “To Yourself” Baku, Azerneshr - 1998
- “Amendment to the book of life” Baku, Azerneshr - 2001
- “And Others” Baku, Nurlar - 2004
- “The Eternal Truth of Huseynbala Miralamov” Baku, Shems - 2005
- "Evening Tales" in English, Baku, Shems - 2007
- “Transformation” in Russian, Baku, Araz - 2007
- "Joining" in Dutch. Holland - 2007
- Etudes of the prison, in English. Holland - 2007
- "Death of a Woman" Baku, Vector - 2008
- “Battle, Shoes, Death” Ankara, Bengu - 2008
- “Dead people laugh at us” Tehran - 2008
- “Son, you don’t see the door, the wind dies in the door” Shirvan Publishing House - 2009
- Finger Kiss in Farsi. Tehran - 2009
- “The Man That is in Poems” essays, articles, Baku, writer - 2010