The following is a List of Azerbaijani-language poets.

North Azerbaijan

Hamid Arzulu Hamid Arzulu (''Hamid Aliyev''; b. 15 May 1937) is an Azerbaijani poet, writer, translator, dramatist, scientist, teacher and a doctor of philology. He lives in the city of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Hamid Arzulu is one of the Nakhchivan Autonomou ...

Aşık Khanlar Khanlar Maharramov ( az, Xanlar Məhərrəmov; 1950, Tovuz – 1998, 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 be ...

Babi Badalov Babi Badalov (born 18 June 1959) is an Azerbaijani visual artist. Since 2011 he lives and works in Paris, France. Life and work Babi Badalov was born as Babakhan Badalov in Lerik, a small town near the Iranian border in the Talysh region of ...

* Abbasgulu Bakikhanov *

Vagif Bayatly Oner Vagif Bayatly Oner ( az, Vagif Bayatlı) is an Azerbaijani poet. He was born in October 1948 in Jabrayil, a district in Karabakh. Vagif's major books of poetry include: ''Under a Lonely Star'', ''All Love Stories Will Be Forgotten'', and ''The Fu ...

Mirvarid Dilbazi Mirvarid Dilbazi ( az, Mirvarid Paşa qızı Dilbazi), (19 August 1912, Xanlıqlar, Azerbaijan – 12 July 2001, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet. Biography She was born in the village of Xanlıqlar located in the Gazakh, Azerbaijan. Both of her ...

* Piruz Dilenchi * Teymur Elchin *

Fuzûlî Mahammad bin Suleyman ( Classical Azerbaijani: ), better known by his pen name Fuzuli ( az-Arab, فضولی ; ; * ota, محمد بن سلیمان فضولی ; * fa, محمد بن سلیمان فضولی . – 1556), was a 16th century ...

Fikrat Goja Fikrat Goja ( az, Fikrət Qoca, 25 August 1935 – 5 May 2021) was an Azerbaijani poet. He was honored as a People's Poet of Azerbaijan in 1998. Early life and education Goja was born in Agdash. He attended Maxim Gorky Literature Institute ...

* Madina Gulgun *

Mahammad Hadi Mahammad Hadi or Agha-Mahammad Haji-Abdulsalim oglu Abdulsalimzade ( az, Məhəmməd Əbdülsəlimzadə Hadi Şirvani; 1879, Shamakhi Rayon, Shamakhi - 1920, Ganja, Azerbaijan, Ganja) was an Azerbaijani Romanticism, romanticist poet. Biography Fo ...

Izzeddin Hasanoglu Sheikh Izzeddin Esfarayeni (; fa, شیخ عزالدین پورحسن اسفراینی), who wrote under the pseudonyms of Hasanoghlu and Pur-e Hasan, was a 13th and 14th century poet who wrote in Azerbaijani and Persian. He is the earliest known ...

Almas Ildyrym Almas Ildyrym ( az, Almas İldırım), born Ildyrym Almaszade (25 March 1907, Baku – 14 January 1952, Elazığ, Turkey), was an Azerbaijani poet. After the Bolsheviks established their power in Azerbaijan in 1920, the fact that Ildyrym had been ...

Hamlet Isakhanli Hamlet Abdulla oglu Isayev ( az, Hamlet Abdulla oğlu İsayev, ; born March 1, 1948) is an Azerbaijani mathematician, historian of science and culture, writer, founder of Khazar University who served as University president from April 1991 to ...

* Jafar Jabbarly * Jafargulu agha Javanshir *

Ahmad Javad Ahmad Javad ( az, Əhməd Məhəmmədəli oğlu Cavad; May 5, 1892 – October 13, 1937) was an Azerbaijani poet who is best known for writing the words of the National Anthem of Azerbaijan used under the 1918–1920 Democratic Republic of Aze ...

* Huseyn Javid *

Nusrat Kasamanli Nusrat Kasamanli ( az, Nüsrət Yusif oğlu Kəsəmənli) (September 25/29 1946, Qazakh – October 16, 2003, Tabriz) was Azerbaijani poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be de ...

* Mikayil Mushfig * Imadaddin Nasimi * Khurshidbanu Natavan *

Ali Nazmi Ali Nazmi ( az, Əli Nəzmi, pen name 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 ...

* Mammed Said Ordubadi *

Baba Punhan Baba Punhan, born Atababa Seyidali oghlu Madatzadeh ( az, Baba Pünhan), (5 November 1948, Baku – 17 April 2004, Baku, Azerbaijan), was an Azerbaijani poet. Biography He was called up for military service in 1968, which he served in Kiev. He w ...

Ramiz Rovshan Ramiz Mammadali Oglu Aliev ( az, Ramiz Məmmədəli oğlu Əliyev) (15 December 1946, Amirjan, Baku - ) better known by his pen name Rovshan ( az, Rövşən) is Azerbaijani poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may ...

Suleyman Rustam Suleyman Rustam ( az, Süleyman Rüstəm; 12 March 1906 – 10 June 1989) was poet of Soviet Azerbaijan, playwright and a public figure. He was the poet of the Azerbaijan SSR (1960), laureate of the Stalin State Prize of the second degree (1 ...

Mirza Alakbar Sabir Mirza Alakbar Sabir ( az, Mirzə Ələkbər Sabir); born Alakbar Zeynalabdin oglu Tahirzadeh (30 May 1862, in Shamakhy – 12 July 1911, in Shamakhy) was an Azerbaijani satirical poet, public figure, philosopher and teacher. He set up a new atti ...

Abbas Sahhat Abbas Sahhat ( az, Abbas Səhhət, born Abbasgulu Aliabbas oglu Mehdizadeh; 1874 in Shamakhi – 11 July 1918, in Ganja), was an Azerbaijani poet and dramatist. Life and career Abbas Sahhat was born into the family of a cleric in the city of Sham ...

Bahar Shirvani Mirza Nasrulla Bahar Shirvani ( az, Mirzə Nəsrulla Bahar Şirvani) (1835, Shamakhi, Azerbaijan - 1883, Tabriz) was renowned Azerbaijani poet. He was born in a wealthy family in Shamakhi where he studied Persian and Arabic languages. After t ...

Seyid Azim Shirvani Seyid Azim Shirvani ( az, Seyid Əzim Şirvani; 9 July 1835, Shamakhy – 1 June 1888, Shamakhy) was an Azerbaijani poet and enlightener. He got his first religious education in Iraq. After returning to motherland he refused his spiritual dignity ...

* Khalil Rza Uluturk *

Mehdigulu Khan Vafa Mehdigulu Khan Utsmiyev ( az, Mehdiqulu xan Xasay xan oğlu Üsmiyev; 1855, Shusha – 1900, Tiflis) was a lyrical poet of Azerbaijan of Kumyk and Javanshir descent, a lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Russian Army. He authored poetry under pse ...

* Molla Panah Vagif * Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh *

Aliagha Vahid Aliagha Mammadgulu oghlu Isgandarov ( az, Əliağa Məmmədqulu oğlu İsgəndərov; 17 February 1895, in Baku – 1 October 1965, in Baku), was an Azerbaijani poet and Honoured Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943). He was known for reintroducing m ...

* Mirza Shafi Vazeh *

Molla Vali Vidadi Molla Vali Vidadi ( az, Molla Vəli Vidadi) (17 March 1709, Shamkir – 13 May 1809, near Gazakh) was an Azerbaijani poet. Little is known about Vidadi. He spent most of his life in his native town of Shamkir (then called Shamkhor) where he ...

* Samad Vurgun *

Gasim bey Zakir Gasim bey Zakir (also spelled Kāṣīm Bey Ḏh̲ākir) ( az, Qasım bəy Zakir; died 1857) was an Azerbaijani poet of the 19th century and one of the founders of the critical realism and satirical genre in Azerbaijani literature. He is consider ...

Hikmat Ziya Hikmat Ziya oghlu Afandiyev ( az, Hikmət Ziya oğlu Əfəndiyev, May 13, 1929 — August 2, 1995) was an Azerbaijani poet, translator, and children's writer. He was a member of the Union of Azerbaijani Writers (1958), member of the Union of Journ ...

Iranian Azerbaijan

* Piruz Dilenchi * Madina Gulgun *

Habib Saher Habib Saher ( fa, حبیب ساهر, az, Həbib Sahir, b. 1903 in Mianeh, Eastern Azerbaijan — d. 1988 in Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 ...

* Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar

References

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Poets A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...