Abbas Zamanov

Abbas Zamanov was born in the village of Makhta, Sharur. He studied at the Baku Pedagogical Technical School and the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute (1939). He worked as a leading Komsomol worker (1929-1937), deputy editor-in-chief of the “Young Worker” newspaper (1933-1934), executive secretary of the “Literature” newspaper, head of the fiction department of “Azernashr” (1937-1939), director of the Opera and Ballet Theater, Philharmonic (1940-1941), director of the Literature Museum (1968-1971). He was a teacher at the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute, a senior lecturer at the Philology Faculty of the Azerbaijan State University (1948-1960), a scientific associate at the Nizami Institute of Literature of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences (1960-1968), and the head of the Azerbaijani Literature Department of the Azerbaijan State University (1971-1979). He began his literary activity in 1937 with the publication of publicist and scientific-popular articles. He was elected a corresponding member of the Turkish Language Association (Turkey) (1971), and an honorary doctor of Konya Seljuk University (Turkey) (1989). He worked in the field of textual studies, compiled and published the works of many authors. He published the books "Sabir in Memories" (1982), "Remembering Javid" (1982) in mass circulation. Literary critic, translator, textual critic, Doctor of Philology (1968), Professor (1971), Honored Scientist (1980), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (1983) Abbas Zamanov died in 1993 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.