Background
Anvar Mammadkhanli was born in 1913 in the provincial town of Goychay, Azerbaijan.
Anvar Mammadkhanli was born in 1913 in the provincial town of Goychay, Azerbaijan.
Anvar Mammadkhanli studied at technical college in Baku. H completed two years of distance study at the prestigious Oil Institute.
Mammadkhanli was five when the independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic began its three years of existence and eight when the Bolsheviks finally took control of Azerbaijan. Despite his technical background, Mammadkhanli moved in the 1930s into translating and editorial work. Anvar Mammadkhanli was a special correspondent for Azerbaijani army newspaper Qizil Ordu during the Second World War.
In 1944-1946 where he was a special correspondent for the army newspaper Vatan yolunda, published in Mammadkhanli worked for 18 years as chief script editor at Azerbaijanfilm.
Anvar Mammadkhanli died in 1990 at the age of 77 and is buried in the Avenue of Honour in Baku. The Poet of Prose Anvar Mammadkhanli was part of a generation of talented writers who burst onto the literary scene with their own distinctive styles.
His first collection of stories was Baku Nights (1935). Mammadkhanli"s prose is especially lyrical.
Forty-five years later, another critic, Professor Abbas Zamanov, dubbed him the "poet of prose".
Mammadkhanli is an author who loves his characters. They are modern thinkers for their time, sensitive, with a sense of responsibility and duty to society. Through his characters Mammadkhanli draws the reader into the struggle for justice, truth, fresh ways of thinking and high ideals against inertia, hostility, selfishness and outdated concepts.
Even when some characters die in the struggle, the writer"s commitment to fighting social injustice does not waver.
Baku Nights and the stories and My Mother"s Death were part of school textbooks in Azerbaijan for more than 40 years. On 5 June 2013, ANAS Institute of Literature named after Nizami Ganjavi held academic session devoted to one of the notable figures of Azerbaijan literature, talented prosiest, scenarist and translator Anvar Mammadkhanli’son
The idealism and energy of Soviet communism in the 1920s left their mark on his work.
The combination of realism and romanticism found in the first of the stories in Baku Nights brings the city of Baku alive to the reader.
Anvar Mammadkhanli since 1938 is a member of Azerbaijan Writers Union. He continued to translate literary classics into Azerbaijani and was a member of Soviet delegations that visited Cuba, Turkey and Spain.
