Ali Nazmi
Ali Nazmi (pen name of Ali Mammadzadeh (Əli Məmmədzadə), 1878, Sarov–January 1, 1946, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet, a representative of the 20th-century Azerbaijani realism and successor of Mirza Alakbar Sabir. Nazmi was the first translator of Shakespeare's King Lear into Azerbaijani. Nazmi's first poem A Start to the Village was published in 1904.
Ali Nazmi

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- Born
- 1878 · Sarov.
- Died
- 1946 · Baku.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- poet · translator
- Languages
- Azerbaijani
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Ali Nazmi (pen name of Ali Mammadzadeh (Əli Məmmədzadə), 1878, Sarov–January 1, 1946, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet, a representative of the 20th-century Azerbaijani realism and successor of Mirza Alakbar Sabir. Nazmi was the first translator of Shakespeare's King Lear into Azerbaijani. Nazmi's first poem A Start to the Village was published in 1904.
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In 1926-1931 Nazmi was a secretary of Molla Nasraddin magazine. During the Soviet-German War he wrote several satires: Hitler's Union with Devil, Wolf's Protest Against God, My Homeland and others. Nazmi strived for the purity of Azerbaijani language against Pan-Turkists and Panislamists.
• Sijimqulunamə (Sijimguluname), Baku, 1927 • Seçilmiş əsərləri (Selected Works), Baku, 1959 • Şerlər (Poems), Baku, 1963
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1878
Ali Nazmi born at Sarov.
1946
Ali Nazmi died at Baku.
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