- Abdulla Shaig
Abdulla Shaig (Azeri: "Abdulla Şaiq") (
25 February 1881 ,Tbilisi –24 July 1959 ,Baku ), born Abdulla Mustafa oglu Talibzadeh, was anAzerbaijan i writer.Early life and Education
Shaig was born to
Marneuli -native Azeri parents, Mustafa Talibzadeh and Mehri Bayramli. His father was anakhoond at the Caucasus Muslim Clerical Board, who taughtIslamic law , Persian and Arabic at a secondary school in Tbilisi (then Tiflis). In 1883, due to a strained relationship with her husband, Shaig's mother moved with her two sons and a daughter toKhorasan (Iran ), where Abdulla Shaig later attended a school. As a teenager, he wroteghazal s and translated a number of pieces from theRussian literature into Persian. In 1901, at the age of 20, he permanently settled in Baku and passed an examination at the First Alexandrian Gymnasium becoming a certified teacher. He worked in the field of public education for the next 33 years.Works
Shaig was a
romanticist and a children's author. His plays and folklore-oriented tales first started being published in local newspapers and magazines in 1906. Later he was also known for writing short stories that illustrated bitter consequences of poverty and economic ordeals faced by the working class in pre-SovietRussia . This made Shaig's works particularly popular in theSoviet Union . His celebration of internationalism and pacifism earned him great success as a writer. Despite his academic work aimed at promoting Azeri culture and somewhat open anti-Stalinist views, he is not believed to have been persecuted by the state. [ [http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai121_folder/121_articles/121_poetry_abdulla_shaig.html Abdulla Shaig: Rays from the Same Sun] . "Azerbaijan International" Magazine. #7.1, spring 1999]Shaig managed literature with his teaching career. He was the author of many language and literature textbooks, published from 1909 through 1920. During the brief independence of the
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918–1920 he showed strong idealogical support for the ruling party ofMusavat .He also translated numerous works by
Shakespeare ,Defoe ,Pushkin ,Lermontov ,Krylov , Gorky,Nekrasov ,Nizami , andFirdowsi into Azeri.Some of Shaig's famous works include:
*"Undelivered Letter"
*"Lady Tigtig"
*"We're all Rays from the Same Sun"
*"Heroes of Our Century"References
External links
* [http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/71_folder/71_articles/71_shaig.html Undelivered Letter] by Abdulla Shaig (online version) at Azer.com
*az icon [http://tehsil.20m.com/maqala/maq4-2.htm Shaig's Autobiography]
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