Ali Nazmi ( az, Əli Nəzmi,
pen name
A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.
A pen na ...
of Ali Mammadzadeh (''Əli Məmmədzadə''), 1878, Sarov–January 1, 1946,
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
) was an
Azerbaijani poet, a representative of the 20th-century Azerbaijani
realism and successor of
Mirza Alakbar Sabir. Nazmi was the first translator of
Shakespeare's ''
King Lear'' into Azerbaijani.
Nazmi's first poem ''A Start to the Village'' was published in 1904. In 1926-1931 Nazmi was a secretary of ''
Molla Nasraddin'' magazine. During the
Soviet-German War he wrote several
satires: ''Hitler's Union with Devil'', ''Wolf's Protest Against God'', ''My Homeland'' and others. Nazmi strived for the purity of Azerbaijani language against
Pan-Turkists and
Panislamists.
[''Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia'' (1980), vol. 4, p. 167]
Notes
Works
*''Sijimqulunamə'' (''Sijimguluname''), Baku, 1927
*''Seçilmiş əsərləri'' (''Selected Works''), Baku, 1959
*''Şerlər'' (''Poems''), Baku, 1963
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1878 births
1946 deaths
Azerbaijani poets
Azerbaijani translators
Azerbaijani satirists
Male poets from the Russian Empire
Soviet poets