Mirza Ibrahimov


Mirza Ibrahimov , Azerbaijani writer, playwright, state and public figure.
Mirza Ibrahimov was born in the village of Eyvaq in Iranian Azerbaijan, in the present-day Sarab County, 11 km south of Duzduzan. In 1918 he moved with his father to Baku.
As the Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet in Azerbaijan he pushed hard to make Azerbaijani a second official language, in addition to Russian. He went to Moscow to speak to the Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, who agreed with him, convinced that the idea made sense. In 1956, the Azerbaijan Communist Party Central Committee amended Azerbaijan's Constitution to include: Azerbaijani is the State language of the Azerbaijan Republic, and National minorities living in Azerbaijan shall be guaranteed the right to develop independently and use their national language in their cultural as well as state organizations.
Between 1970 and 1986 he was the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan.
Mirza Ibrahimov died in 1993 in Baku.

Works

  1. Giqantlar ölkəsi, 1932
  2. Həyat üçün, 1934
  3. Həyat, 1937
  4. Böyük demokrat, 1939
  5. Həyat və ədəbiyyat, 1947
  6. Azad, 1949
  7. Gələcək üçün, 1949
  8. Salam sənə Rusiya!, 1950
  9. Gələcək gün, 1951
  10. Böyük dayaq, 1957
  11. Mədinənin ürəyi, 1961
  12. Böyük şairimiz Sabir, 1962
  13. Murovdağın ətəyində, 1964
  14. Ədəbi qeydlər, 1970
  15. Pərvanə, 1971
  16. Pərvizin həyatı, 1975
  17. Anama deyərəm ha!, 1986