Baba Punhan, born Atababa Seyidali oghlu Madatzadeh ( az, Baba Pünhan), (5 November 1948,
Baku – 17 April 2004,
Baku,
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
), was an
Azerbaijani
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* Something of, or related to Azerbaijan
* Azerbaijanis
* Azerbaijani language
See also
* Azerbaijan (disambiguation)
* Azeri (disambiguation)
* Azerbaijani cuisine
* Culture of Azerbaijan
The culture of Azerbaijan ...
poet.
Biography
He was called up for military service in 1968, which he served in
Kiev
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Ky ...
.
He was praised for popularising
Azenglish in
Azerbaijani literature
Azerbaijani literature ( az, Azərbaycan ədəbiyyatı) is written in Azerbaijani, a Turkic language, which is the official state language of the Republic of Azerbaijan, where the North Azerbaijani variety is spoken. It is also natively spoke ...
.
Music
Throughout his career he composed numerous pieces of
meykhana
Meykhana ( az, Meyxana) is a distinctive Azerbaijani literary and folk rap tradition, consisting of an unaccompanied song performed by one or more people improvising on a particular subject. Meykhana is distinct from spoken word poetry in that ...
based on modern Azerbaijan.
List of works
Baba Punhan published about 278
ghazal
The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a ...
s. His most well-known books include:
*''Acı həqiqət'' (Sad Truth, 2000)
*''Yalan çeynəyə–çeynəyə'' (Chewing Lies, 2000)
*''Mən nə dedim ki ...'' (What have I said..., 2004)
References
External links
* reprinted in an Azerbaijani magazine in 2005
Azerbaijani male poets
1948 births
2004 deaths
Writers from Baku
20th-century Azerbaijani poets
20th-century male writers
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