Background
Kamran Nazirli, an Azerbaijani writer, dramatist, translator, was born in Astara in 1958 and moved to Baku in 1975, where he studied in the English faculty at the Azerbaijani Institute of Foreign Languages.
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Kamran Nazirli
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He received his Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis in Linguistics. He also graduated from the Baku Institute of Social Management and Politics and worked as a correspondent in various newspapers and State Information Agencies (Azerinform) as a translator in various international companies and projects financed by the World Bank.
Career
Kamran Nazirli has translated works by English and American novelists and poets into Azeri such as Jack London, Oscar Wilde, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Mitchell, Edgar Allan Poe, John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, Harold Pinter, et cetera He also translates works by Azerbaijani writers and poets into English.
Achievements
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He was awarded with the Prize of H.B. Zardabi, and is the founder of the Azerbaijani National Press. He received the "Gold Word" prize from the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2011 for his translation of the book entitled Nobody Ever Dies and was awarded a special prize from the United States of America Embassy in Azerbaijan for his translation book Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
Membership
He is a member of the Azerbaijani Writers" Union and Journalists" Union. He is a Member of the Azerbaijani Writers" Union and the author of several books such as Love Story, Among the Natives, The Devil’s Light, Selected Stories, The White House, and A Manitoba in Coma.
