Ilyas Mahammad oglu Afandiyev

Ilyas Mahammad oglu Afandiyev was born on the 26^th May 1914; he died on the 3^rd October 1996 at the age of 82. He was an Azerbaijani and Soviet writer, and was a member of the Union of Writers of the country. Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan (1960), laureate of the State Prize of Azerbaijan (1972) and People’s Writer of Azerbaijan (1979).

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Biography

Ilyas Mahammad oglu Afandiyev was born in Karyagino, Russian Empire. He graduated from the Lenin Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute in the city of Baku in the year 1938. In the year 1939, his collection called Letters from the Village was published. His collection of stories called Serene Nights was published in the year 1945

Ilyas Mahammad oglu Afandiyev died on the 3^rd October 1996 in the city of Baku and was burried in the Alley of Honor of the city.

Works

Plays

Ø  Expectation (1940)

Ø  Bright ways (1947)

Ø  Spring floods (1948)

Ø  The Atayevs’ family (1954)

Ø  You are always with me (1965)

Ø  My guilt (1969)

Ø  A devil came from a fiery desert

Ø  A chandelier for ten mantas

Ø  Believe in us

Ø  I can’t forget (1968)

Ø  Erased diaries (1970)

Ø  The song stayed in the mountains (1971)

Ø  Weird boy (1973)

Ø  Voice coming from the gardens (1976)

Ø  Khurshidbanu Natavan (1980)

Ø  In the crystal palace

Ø  Shaikh Khiyabani (1986)

Ø  Our strange destiny (1988)

Ø  Sweethearts coupling in the hell (1989)

Ø  A single oleaster tree (1991)

Ø  Sensible and mad men (1992)

Ø  The ruler and a girl (1994)

Novels

Ø  Willow channel (1958)

Ø  Cornel bridge (1960)

Ø  Three friends beyond mountains (1964)

Ø  Plane tree of khan

Ø  Fairy tale of bulbul and Valeh (1976-1978)

Ø  Old man, don’t look back (1980)