Jafar Jabbarly
{{Short description|Azerbaijani poet and screenwriter (1899–1934)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|3|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Khizi, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire (present day Azerbaijan)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1934|12|31|1899|3|20|df=y}}
| death_place = Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
| occupation = Dramaturge, Poet, Screenwriter
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| native_name = {{langx|az|Cəfər Cabbarlı}}
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Jafar Gafar oghlu Jabbarly, ({{langx|az|Cəfər Qafar oğlu Cabbarlı}}, 20 March 1899, Khizi – 31 December 1934, Baku) was the eminent Azerbaijani and Soviet writer, the founder of the Azerbaijan Soviet dramaturgy. He was a director, playwright and screenwriter.
Life
After his father's death in 1902, Jabbarly's mother moved to Baku with her four children. In 1915, Jabbarly graduated from high school and studied electromechanics at Baku Polytechnicum for the next 5 years. In 1920 he was admitted to Azerbaijan State University to study applied medicine but due to his lack of interest soon switched to Oriental studies. In 1923, he started attending lectures at a local theatre to fulfill his interest in drama.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070429063356/http://www.cafarcabbarli.com/en/hayati_e.html Jafar Jabbarli: Life and First Years of Education] (archived)
Jafar Jabbarly died at the age of 35 of heart failure and was buried at the Alley of Honor. The national film studio, Azerbaijanfilm, a street, a square and a metro station in Baku are named after him.
On 22 May 1985 the House-Museum of Jafar Jabbarly was opened. It is located in the house on I. Gutgashinli street 44 (former G. Sultanov street), Baku, where Jafar Jabbarly used to live.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070429070625/http://www.cafarcabbarli.com/en/muzey_e.html Jafar Jabbarly: Museum] (archived)
Literature, theatre and film
Jafar Jabbarly started writing poems in his early teenage years and was reported to have had his first poems published in the Azerbaijani newspaper Hagigat-i Afkar in 1911. In the following years, he wrote more than 20 plays, as well as poems, essays, short stories, and articles. His works were very much influenced by the 1920s propaganda of Communist glory and celebrated appropriate themes such as equality, labour, education, cosmopolitanism, emancipation of women, cultural shifts, etc. Jabbarly's major accomplishment in introducing European plays to average Azerbaijanis was translating William Shakespeare's Hamlet into Azerbaijani in 1925 and directing it at the Azerbaijan Drama Theatre a year later.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070429172002/http://www.cafarcabbarli.com/en/tarcuma_e.html Jafar Jabbarli: Translations] (archived)
Jafar Jabbarly is considered the founder of screenwriting in Azerbaijan. Two of his plays, Sevil and Almaz, both written in 1928, were made into films in 1929 and 1936 respectively. Both focused on the theme of the role of women, their oppression, struggle, and ultimately, victory over dated patriarchal traditions.{{cite book|last=Heyat|first=Farideh |title=Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan|date=2002|publisher=Routledge|location=Oxon, UK|isbn=1136871705|pages=98–102|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kp0AAwAAQBAJ}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20070501154759/http://www.cafarcabbarli.com/en/ucuncu_e.html Jafar Jabbarly: Third period of the writer's creative activity (1928-1934)] (archived)[https://web.archive.org/web/20070429185733/http://www.cafarcabbarli.com/en/kino_e.html Jafar Jabbarly: Film Activity] (archived)
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070705030854/http://www.cafarcabbarli.com/index_e.html Cafarcabbarli.com] (archived)
- [http://azeri.org/Azeri/az_latin/latin_lit/az_literature/drama/jafar_jabbarli/jabbarli_index.html Short Stories and Dramas by Jafar Jabbarly Online] at Azeri.org
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Category:People from Khizi District
Category:Azerbaijani male poets
Category:Soviet male screenwriters
Category:Translators to Azerbaijani
Category:Burials at Alley of Honor
Category:Baku State University alumni
Category:20th-century Azerbaijani poets
Category:20th-century Azerbaijani dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Azerbaijani male writers