Alibala Hajizadeh
Birth date:
28 August 1935
Death date:
08 October 2009
Alibala Hajizadeh was born in the village of Agalikend, Bilasuvar.
He studied at the Persian Department of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Azerbaijan State University (1953-1958).
He began his work as a junior research worker at the Institute of the Peoples of the Near and Middle East of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences (1958). He worked as a translator in Afghanistan for a while (1966-1970). Then he worked again as a senior research worker at the Institute of the Peoples of the Near and Middle East (now the Institute of Oriental Studies) of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences (since 1976) and worked in the Iranian Philology Department of that Institute until the end of his life. He was the editor-in-chief of the “Nizami” magazine (1994-1996).
His first story, “My Teacher,” was published in the “Voice of Youth” almanac (1956). After that, he appeared in periodicals from time to time. One of the new themes he brought to Azerbaijani literature was the description of the scientific environment. He brought the somewhat closed lives of scientists to a wide audience with his novels "The Shadow of the Plane" and "My Loyalty". His works "The Burnt Man" and "The Missing Bride" were staged at the Ganja Drama Theater.
Alibala Hajizadeh died in 2009.
