Salam Gadirzadeh
Birth date:
10 April 1923
Death date:
15 November 1987
Salam Gadirzadeh was born in Baku.
He wrote poems and stories from childhood and participated in literary circles.
As soon as he graduated from secondary school, he voluntarily went to the front. He participated as an ordinary fighter in the liberation of the North Caucasus, Kuban, Western Ukraine, Poland, Bessarabia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, as well as Germany (1941-1945), was awarded medals.
After being demobilized in 1946, he was appointed deputy director of the factory-factory education school No. 18 in Sumgayit.
In 1948, he entered the correspondence department of the Philology Faculty of Azerbaijan State University. In 1949, he was sent to study at the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow (1949-1952).
The story "Youth", which he wrote as his diploma work, was published in book form by the famous Russian publishing house "Detgiz".
He worked as the editor-in-chief of local programs of the Central Radio (1948), the executive secretary of the magazine "Azerbaijan", the executive secretary of the satirical magazine "Kirpi" (1960-1966), the advisor on dramaturgy of the Writers' Union (1975-1976), the editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine "Kirpi" (1976-1980). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan.
He is the author of about 35 books. The novels were published, and his plays were staged in Ukraine, Moldova and other countries.
Salam Gadirzadeh died in 1987.
