Anvar Mammadkhanli

Anvar Mammadkhanli was born in Goychay.

He studied at the Azerbaijan Industrial Technical School (1926-1931), the Azerbaijan Oil Institute, and the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (1936-1938).

He worked as a technician at a mechanical plant in Baku, at the energy and electrification department, and as a technician-electrician at the Scientific Research Institute under the Azerbaijan Oil Institute (1931-1934). He was an editor and translator in the art department of “Azernashr” (1934-1936), head of the script department at the “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio (1941-1942), and was a special correspondent for the Azerbaijani editorial office of the “Gyzyl Ordu” front-line newspaper on the southwestern front during World War II. Then he was sent to Stalingrad with the editorial office. At the end of 1942, he was in the 416th division on the North Caucasus front with a group of Azerbaijani writers. He worked as an editor in the Azerbaijan Radio Broadcasting Committee in Baku (1943-1944). He was again sent to the Transcaucasian front, and from there to Iran for military service. He worked as a special correspondent in the editorial office of the army newspaper "Vatan yondolu" published in Tabriz (1944-1946). After being discharged from the army, he became the editor-in-chief of the script editorial board of the "Azerbaijanfilm" film studio (1946-1964).

He began his literary activity in 1930. He is the first writer to turn to the lyrical story genre in Azerbaijani literature. The story "Ice Statue" is a living monument made of words. In addition to the story "Burulgan", the play "In the Fire" about the national liberation struggle of the Azerbaijani people, and lyrical stories, he is also the author of screenplays for feature films that have their place in the history of cinema.

Honored Artist (1963), People's Writer (1987) Enver Mammadkhanli died in 1990 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.