Abbas Abdulla

Abbas Abdulla (Abbas Ajalov Hajaloghlu) was born in Bolnisi (Georgia). He studied at the Faculty of Philology of Azerbaijan State University (1958-1963), postgraduate studies at the Institute of Language and Literature named after Nizami of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences (1964-1966), and the Faculty of Ideological Personnel of the University of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the AKP (1981-1982). He underwent an internship at the Shevchenko Studies Department of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He taught in his village for a while (1958-1959). During his student years, he worked as an assistant worker, locksmith at the Baku Oil Refinery, and as an employee of the editorial office of the plant's newspaper "Neftayiran" (1961-1963). He was the head of department in the editorial office of the "Ulduz" magazine (1966-1973), the head of department, special correspondent in the editorial office of the "Literature and Art" newspaper (1973-1977), deputy editor-in-chief (1979-1987), secretary of the first party organization in the Azerbaijan Writers' Union (1981-1983), secretary in the secretariat of the Azerbaijan Writers' Union (on criticism and literary studies, journalism) (1991-1992), executive secretary, editor-in-chief of the "Ulduz" magazine (1987-1992). He was one of the founders of the Azerbaijan National Front and a member of the Council of Elders. He was elected a member of the Musavat Party restoration commission, a member of the Supreme Assembly and the Council (1992). He served as the Consul General of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Turkey (1992-1997). He began his literary activity with the publication of the "Oyun, vetanim!" His first poem "Dawn of the East" (1957, Tbilisi) was published in the newspaper. His work is dominated by literary translation, and he has translated from Ukrainian. Honored Worker of Culture (1984), laureate of the Maxim Rylsky Literary Prize of Ukraine (1984), Abbas Abdulla died in 2019 and was buried in the Kepanekchi cemetery in Mashtaga.