Nariman Hasanzadeh

Nariman Hasanzadeh was born in the Poylu settlement of Gazakh (now Agstafa).

He studied at the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Ganja State Pedagogical Institute (1949-1953), at the Literature course in Moscow, and at the M. Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow (1957-1961). He was a postgraduate student at the Department of History of Azerbaijani Literature of Azerbaijan State University (1962-1965).

He worked as a senior editor at the Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting (1962), editor at the "Children's and Youth Literature Publishing House", head of the department at the "Azerbaijani Youth" newspaper, "Azerbaijan" magazine, editor-in-chief of the "Literature and Art" newspaper (1976-1990), director of the Azerbaijani branch of the USSR Writers' Literature Fund, deputy chairman of the State Press Committee (1991-1993), first deputy minister of press and information (1991-2001), chairman of the Board of Directors of the Literature Fund (2004). He was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1990-1995).

He worked as the head of the "Humanitarian Sciences Department" of the Azerbaijan National Aviation Academy.

He is the author of numerous books.

He was awarded the orders "Shohrat" (2001), "Sharaf" (2011), "Istiglal" (2021) and "Heydar Aliyev" (2026).

Candidate of Philological Sciences (1965), Honored Artist (1981), People's Poet (2005) Nariman Hasanzadeh died in 2026 and was buried in the Alley of Honor.