Samed Vurgun is a writer from Azerbaijan, twice awarded the Stalin Prize. Among his most significant creations are the poems Lokbatan, Twenty Six, Aygun, plays W.gif" />
The childhood of the poet
Samad Vurgun (real name - Vekilov) was born on March 21, 1906 according to a new style in the small village of Yukhary Salahly. When the boy was six years old, his mother passed away. Since 1912, he was raised by his grandmother Aisha and his father.
In 1918, he graduated from the Zemstvo school and moved with his family to Gaza (this is a city in southwestern Azerbaijan). Then Samed, like his older brother Mehtihan, entered the Gazakh teacher's seminary.
In 1922, the poet's father died, and another year later, his grandmother. After this, Samad took custody of his cousin Khangyzy.
Creativity and life of Samed Vurgun from 1925 to 1945
He began to publish with his works in 1925. It was then that in the Tiflis edition of "Yeni Fikir" published his poem, which was called "Appeal to Youth".
It is known that in the twenties Samad was a literature teacher in Gazakh, Guba and Ganja. In 1929, he became a student at the Second Moscow State University and studied there until 1930, after which he decided to continue his education at the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute.
The debut book of Samad Vurgun was published in 1930 - it was called "The Oath of the Poet."
Four years later, in 1934, Samed married Khaver khanum Mirzabekova. In fact, Haver became the main love in the life of the writer, they lived together until his death. In this marriage three children were born - two sons (Yusif and Vagif) and a daughter (her name Aybyaniz). Sons, when they grew up, connected their lives with creativity: V.gif" />
Since the mid-thirties, Samed Vurgun began to engage in translation activities. For example, he translated the novel of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" and (partially) the famous Georgian epic poem of the twelfth century - "The Knight in the Tiger Skin", into his native Azerbaijani.
In 1937, Samed Vurgun finished work on the tragedy in three acts "Vagif". It tells about the life of the Azerbaijani poet and vizier Moll Panah Vagif, who lived in the eighteenth century. In the early forties for this tragedy, Vurgun was given the Stalin Prize. Later he was awarded this prestigious award for the second time for the rhymed play Farhad and Shirin.
The writer was engaged in creativity during the Great Patriotic War. From 1941 to 1945, he created more than sixty poems and a number of poems (in particular, the poem "Dastan in Baku").
In 1943, in the United States at a poetry competition on military subjects, Vurgun presented his poem "Mother's Parting Words". It was appreciated by the organizers of the contest and entered the top twenty. It was printed in a New York collection, which was distributed among American soldiers.
In the same 1943, in Baku, at the suggestion of Vurgun, it opened its doors to meetings with fighters who fought at the front, and other events of the Fizuli Intellectuals House.
