Gilman Ilkin

Gilman Ilkin (Gilman Musayev) was born in the village of Mardakan in Baku.

He studied at the Baku Pedagogical Technical School (1926-1929) and the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute (1932-1936).

He began his career as a school teacher in the village of Ahmadoba in the Khachmaz region. He worked as a literary worker in the editorial office of the "Young Worker" newspaper (1931-1932), as a consultant, editor-in-chief, and director in "Ushaggenjneshr" (1938), during the war years as part of the former Soviet Army in military newspapers on the Caucasus front and in Iran, as a correspondent in the editorial office of the soldier's newspaper "On the Path of the Homeland" published in Tabriz, as a senior lecturer at Azerbaijan State University, as an editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijan State Publishing House (1960-1963), as an editor-in-chief of the "Azerbaijan" magazine (1963-1967), and as a director at the Azerbaijan State Publishing House (1967-1971).

He began his writer career in 1943 with the story "Wounded Falcon". He is the author of the books "Revolt in the Fortress" (1959), "North Wind" (1962), "Gift" (1969), "Mountain Neighborhood" (1978), "Sea Gate" (1984), "Madame Kadri" (1988), etc.

The winner of the State Prize (1967), Honored Artist (1989), People's Writer (2003) Gılman Ilkin died in 2009 and was buried in the Second Alley of Honor.