Chingiz Abdullayev

Chingiz Abdullayev was born in Baku.

He studied at the Faculty of Law of Azerbaijan State University (1976-1981).

He began his career as a legal advisor, senior legal advisor and head of department at the Baku Production Union (1981). He was on business trips to African, Asian and European countries (1984-1986). He worked as a department head in the Azizbeyov district executive committee of Baku city, an instructor of the organizational department in the Garadagh district committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, and head of the political and educational office. He defended a dissertation on the problem of international aggression and received the degree of candidate of legal sciences (1988). He is a doctor of legal sciences (1991). He is an honorary professor of the University of Krakow, Poland (1989), a doctor of the national academy under the Union of Democratic Intellectuals of Azerbaijan (1990). He was elected chairman of the H.Z. Tagiyev Charity Society (since 1990) and secretary of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan (since 1991). He is the vice-president of the Azerbaijan PEN Club (1990). His works have been translated into fourteen languages ​​and published in the world with a total circulation of about 20 million copies. The American magazine “The Christian Science Monitor” called him one of the best authors of the political detective genre of the modern era. Since 2014, he has been an honorary ambassador of Interpol.

He is the screenwriter of the series “Drongo” (2002, director Zinoviy Roizman) and “Unlicensed Spy” (2003, directors Valery Uzkov, Vladimir Kransnopolsky), both filmed by Russian film producers.

He was awarded the orders “Shohrat” (2009) and “Sharaf” (2019). He is a People's Writer (2005).