Aziza Jafarzadeh

Aziza Jafarzadeh was born in Baku.

She studied at the Theater Technical School, the two-year Teachers' Institute, and the Philology Faculty of Azerbaijan State University (1946-1947).

She worked as a teacher in the village of Chaparli in the Agsu region (1942-1944), head of the script department at the "Azerbaijanfilm" film studio (1944-1946), head of the Theater Technical School (1947-1949), associate professor and head of the department at the Pedagogical Institute (1950-1955), associate professor at the Kamchatka Pedagogical Institute (1956), senior research fellow and head of department at the Institute of Manuscripts of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences (1957-1974), and professor at Baku State University (since 1974).

He was known as an expert on the history of 19th-century Azerbaijani literature and defended his dissertations on the topic of "Educationalist-Intellectual Figures in 19th-century Azerbaijani Literature" (1950) and his doctoral dissertations on the topic of "Folk Poetry Style in 19th-century Azerbaijani Poetry" (1970). He began his literary career at the age of 16 and published his first story, "Azrayil", in the "Adabiyyat" newspaper in 1937. His first book was published in 1948, but was banned and burned by a special decision of Moscow before it went on sale. His prose works were mainly written in the genre of historical novels.

Doctor of Philology, Professor, People's Writer (2001) Aziza Jafarzadeh died in 2003 and was buried in the village of Tagili, Hajigabul region.