Vagif Samadoghlu


Vagif Samadoghlu was an Azerbaijani poet, playwright, publicist, People's Poet of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Biography

Vagif Samadoghlu was born on 5 June 1939 in Baku. After Vakilov graduated from the Music School named after Bulbul he studied at National Conservatory of Azerbaijan. Passed a professional course at the Moscow Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky.
He has worked as Chief of Art Editorial Office of Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia, Editor-in-Chief of the "Oghuz Eli" Newspaper. Then Vakilov worked as a piano teacher at the National Conservatory of Azerbaijan, as the literary director of the movie-actor theater at the Azerbaijanfilm studio named after J. Jabbarly.
Vagif Samadoghlu was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2000 and 2005. He was a member of the delegation of Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe. He had been a member of the Union of Azerbaijani Writers since 1970.
The poet died on January 28, 2015 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.

Works

Vakilov had also worked in the field of poetry, theater and drama. The first press work named "Seven Poems" was published in 1963 in the journal "Azerbaijan". He started to artistic creativity in the 60's. In 1968 the first book "Telegrams on the Road" was published. Later "The Happiness of the Day", "Here I am, Divine", "Far, Green Island" were published.
He was also a talented playwright. The play "High Mountain", "Lottery", "Happiness ring", "Summer snowball game", "Man with green glasses", "General's last command", "Mamoy men's dreams" were staged and some of them have achieved great success in feature films and television productions.

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Awards