- Jafar Jabbarly
Jafar Gafar oglu Jabbarly, often spelled Jabbarli ( _az. Cəfər Cabbarlı,
20 March 1899 ,Khizi –31 December 1934 ,Baku ) was anAzerbaijan i playwright, poet, director and screenwriter.Literature and theatre
After his father's death in 1902, Jabbarly's mother moved to
Baku with her four children. In 1915, Jabbarly graduated from high school and studiedelectromechanics atBaku Polytechnicum for the next 5 years. In 1920 he was admitted to Azerbaijan State University to study appliedmedicine but due to his lack of interest soon switched toOriental studies . In 1923, he started attending lectures at a local theatre to fulfill his interest indrama . [http://www.cafarcabbarli.com/en/hayati_e.html Jafar Jabbarly: Life and First Years of Education] ]Jafar Jabbarly started writing poems in his early teenage years and was reported to have had his first poems published in the Azeri newspaper "Hagigat-i Afkar" in 1911. In the following years, he wrote more than 20 plays, as well as poems, essays, short stories, and articles. His works were very much influenced by the 1920s propaganda of
Communist glory and celebrated appropriate themes such as equality, labour, education, cosmopolitanism, emancipation of women, cultural shifts, etc. Jabbarly's major accomplishment in introducingEurope an plays to average Azerbaijanis was translatingWilliam Shakespeare 's "Hamlet " into Azeri in 1925 and directing it at theAzerbaijan State Drama Theatre a year later. [ [http://www.cafarcabbarli.com/en/tarcuma_e.html Translations by Jafar Jabbarly] ]Film
Jafar Jabbarly is considered the founder of screenwriting in Azerbaijan. Two of his plays, "Sevil" and "Almaz", were made into films in 1929 and 1936 respectively. Both focused on the theme of the role of women, their oppression, struggle, and ultimately, victory over dated
patriarchal traditions. [ [http://www.cafarcabbarli.com/en/kino_e.html Film Activity of Jafar Jabbarly] ]Jafar Jabbarly died at the age of 35 of
heart failure . The national film studio, "Azerbaijanfilm ", a street and a subway station in Baku are named after him.References
External links
* [http://azeri.org/Azeri/az_latin/latin_lit/az_literature/drama/jafar_jabbarli/jabbarli_index.html Short Stories and Dramas by Jafar Jabbarly Online] at Azeri.org
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