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Soviet stamp, issued on the 70th birth anniversary of Samed Vurgun.
Samad Vurgun (Azerbaijani: Səməd Vurğun, born Samad Vakilov, March 21, 1906, Yukhari Salahli – May 27, 1956, Baku) was a prominent Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, honoured worker of arts of Azerbaijan SSR and a member of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR from 1945. Vurgun was awarded the USSR State Prize for his dramas: in 1941 for Vagif (1937) and in 1942 for Farhad and Shirin (1941).
Vurgun began publishing in 1924. The Azerbaijan State Russian Dramatic Theatre and streets in Baku and Moscow are named after him.
[edit] Collected verses
- The Poet's Oath (1930)
- The Lamp (1932)
- The Parched Books (1947)
- The Komsomol Poem (1933, not finished)
- A Negro tells (1948)
- Mugan (1949)
- Reading Lenin (1950)
- Aygun (1951)
- The Standard Bearer of Century (1954)
[edit] Dramas
- Vagif (1937)
- Farkhad and Shirin (1941)
- The Man (1945)
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Unless otherwise indicated author wrote in Azerbaijani
1 only in Persian · 2 also in Persian · 3 Mainly in Persian but scattered verses in Old Azari language · 4 Professor Jan Rypka in his book History of Iranian Literature has coined the term "Azerbaijani style of Persian literature" to describe the style of Persian poetry in Azerbaijan. Qatran is credited as the founder of this style. · 5 only in Arabic · 6 also in Arabic · 7 only in Russian · 8 also in Russian · 9 also in French
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