Fikrat Goja (Fikrat Gojayev) was born in the village of Kotanarkh, Agdash.

He studied at the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow (1964).

He worked in the Azerbaijan Radio and Television Broadcasting Committee, the “Azerbaijani Youth” newspaper, and the “Azerbaijan” magazine. He was the editor-in-chief of the “Gobustan” art collection (1987), the secretary-in-charge of international relations of the Writers' Union, and the first secretary of the Union of Writers (1998-2021). He has been published in the press since 1956. He has published many books. He was awarded the State Prize (2016), the “Humay” Prize (1998), the “Shohrat” (1995), “Sharaf” (2015) and “Istiglal” (2020) orders.

Honored Artist (1979), People's Poet (1998) Fikrat Goja died in 2021 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.