Samad Vurgun

:"For the town in Armenia, see Hovk."Samad Vurgun ( _az. Səməd Vurğun, born Samad Vakilov, March 21 1906, Yukhari Salahli – May 27 1956, Baku) was a prominent Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, honoured worker of arts of Azerbaijan SSR and a member of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR from 1945. Vurgun was awarded the USSR State Prize for his dramas: in 1941 for "Vagif" (1937) and in 1942 for "Farhad and Shirin" (1941).

Vurgun began publishing in 1924. The Azerbaijan State Russian Dramatic Theatre and streets in Baku and Moscow, and formerly the city of Hovk in Armenia, are named after him.

Collected verses

*"The Poet's Oath" (1930)
*"The Lamp" (1932)
*"The Parched Books" (1947)

Poems

*"The Komsomol Poem" (1933, not finished)
*"A Negro tells" (1948)
*"Mugan" (1949)
*"Reading Lenin" (1950)
*"Aygun" (1951)
*"The Standard Bearer of Century" (1954)

Dramas

*"Vagif" (1937)
*"Farkhad and Shirin" (1941)
*"The Man" (1945)

External links

* [http://azeribooks.narod.ru/poezia/vurgun/vurgun.htm Verses (in Russian)]
* [http://www.azerigallery.com/literature/vurghun.html Гасан Гулиев. Самед Вургун. "Литературный Азербайджан"]
* [http://www.samedvurgun.com/ Samed Vurgun's own Website]

References

*Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd ed.