Samed Vurgun
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Samed Vurgun (Azeri: Səməd Vurğun, Azeri Cyrillic: Сəмəд Вурғун, Russian: Самед Вургун; real name Samed Vekilov, Azeri in full: Səməd Yusif oğlu Vəkilov,March 21 or May 12, 1906, Yuxarı Salaxlı settlement, Qazakh—May 27, 1956, Baku) was a prominent Azeri and Soviet poet, honoured worker of arts of Azerbaijan SSR and a member of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR from 1945. Vurgun was awarded the USSR State Prize for his dramas: in 1941 for 1937 Vagif and in 1942 for Farkhad and Shirin (1941).
Vurgun began publishing in 1924. The Azerbaijan State Russian Dramatic Theatre and streets in Baku and Moscow are named after him.
Official Website of Samed Vurgun
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[edit] Collected verses
- The Poet's Oath (1930)
- The Lamp (1932)
- The Parched Books (1947)
[edit] Poems
- The Komsomol Poem (1933, not finished)
- A Negro tells (1948)
- Mugan (1949)
- Reading Lenin (1950)
- Aygun (1951)
- The Standard Bearer of Century (1954)
[edit] Dramas
- Vagif (1937)
- Farkhad and Shirin (1941)
- The Man (1945)
[edit] External links
- Verses (in Russian)
- Гасан Гулиев. Самед Вургун. "Литературный Азербайджан"
- Samed Vurgun's own Website
[edit] Reference
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd ed.
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