Baba Punhan, born Atababa Seyidali oghlu Madatzadeh (Azerbaijani: Baba Pünhan), (5 November 1948, Baku – 17 April 2004, Baku, Azerbaijan), was an Azerbaijani poet.[1][2]

Baba Punhan
Born(1948-11-05)November 5, 1948
Kurdakhany, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
DiedApril 17, 2004(2004-04-17) (aged 55)
Kurdakhany, Baku, Azerbaijan
OccupationPoet
LanguageAzerbaijani
Period1962–2004
GenreSatire
Notable works
  • Sad Truth
  • What have I said...
  • If Karabakh goes...

Biography

edit

He was called up for military service in 1968, which he served in Kiev.[3] He was praised for popularising Azenglish in Azerbaijani literature.[4][5]

Music

edit

Throughout his career he composed numerous pieces of meykhana based on modern Azerbaijan.[3]

List of works

edit

Baba Punhan published about 278 ghazals.[citation needed] His most well-known books include:[6]

  • Acı həqiqət (Sad Truth, 2000)
  • Yalan çeynəyə–çeynəyə (Chewing Lies, 2000)
  • Mən nə dedim ki ... (What have I said..., 2004)

References

edit
  1. ^ Biography from lit.az Archived 2007-09-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Azerbaijani)
  2. ^ Baba Pünhan-"Mən nə dedim ki?!"[permanent dead link] (in Azerbaijani)
  3. ^ a b "Baba Pünhan", Adam.az bioqrafiya toplusu (in Azerbaijani), archived from the original on 2011-07-06, retrieved 2009-08-18
  4. ^ "Baba Pünhan. Sənk yu (THANK YOU)". Azadlıq Radiosu (in Azerbaijani). Radio Liberty. 30 August 2011. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  5. ^ Yerfi, Rovshan. "Əvəzi olmayan vətəndaş şair". kaspi.az (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on 30 July 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  6. ^ "Baba Pünhanin yaradıcılıq gecəsi keçirilib", Internews Azerbaijan (in Azerbaijani), 2006-04-18, archived from the original on 2011-07-17, retrieved 2009-08-18
edit
  • "Two poems of Baba Punhan". Archived from the original on 2006-05-07. Retrieved 2009-08-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) reprinted in an Azerbaijani magazine in 2005

[[Category:20th-century male writers]