Altay Mammadov

Altay Mammadov (Altay Yusifoghlu) was born in Ganja.

He graduated from the Workers' and Youth School No. 4. He worked as a watchmaker's apprentice, assistant foreman and foreman (1943-1949). He studied at the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Ganja State Pedagogical Institute (1949-1953).

He was appointed as a senior lecturer at the Department of History of Azerbaijani Literature. He worked as a proofreader in the newspaper "Ganja Fehlasi" (1951), assistant to the executive secretary in the newspaper "Ganja Kommunist" (1953) and executive secretary (1953-1955), senior lecturer in the Department of Azerbaijani Literature of the GDPI named after H. Zardabi (1953), chairman of the Ganja branch of the Writers' Union (1962-1989), and executive secretary of the Ganja zonal branch of the Writers' Union.

He began his literary activity in 1950 with an essay titled "From Labor to Science" published in the "Literary Newspaper". Then he attracted attention with his short stories. He was the responsible secretary in the editorial office of the "Kirovabad Kommunist" newspaper (1953-1955), the chairman of the Ganja branch of the Azerbaijan Writers' Union (1962), the vice-rector for scientific affairs of the H. Zardabi State Institute of Literature and Literature (1970-1974), and an associate professor of the department of Azerbaijani literature and its teaching methods at the same institute (1974-2003). He is the artistic director of the Nizami Poetry Theater and the author of plays. He was a member of the Board of the Azerbaijan Writers' Union. His plays have been staged in Azerbaijan and abroad, and his works have been published in translations into foreign languages. He has translations from Russian.

Honored Cultural Worker (1971), Candidate of Philological Sciences (1964), Associate Professor (1965) Altay Mammadov died in Ganja in 2003.

Writer Altay Mammadov is the father of director Eljan Mammadov.