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Jafar Gafar oglu Jabbarly, often spelled Jabbarli was an Azerbaijani playwright, poet, director and screenwriter.

Background

After his father"s death in 1902, Jabbarly"s mother moved to Baku with her four children.

Education

In 1915, Jabbarly graduated from high school and studied electromechanics at Baku Polytechnicum for the next 5 years.

Career

In 1920 he was admitted to Azerbaijan State University to study applied medicine but due to his lack of interest soon switched to Oriental studies. In 1923, he started attending lectures at a local theatre to fulfill his interest in drama. 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

Achievements

  • Jabbarly"s major accomplishment in introducing European plays to average Azerbaijanis was translating William Shakespeare"s Hamlet into Azeri in 1925 and directing it at the Azerbaijan Drama Theatre a year later. Jafar Jabbarly is considered the founder of screenwriting in Azerbaijan.