Fizuli
Muhammad Ibn Suleyman,is one of the most famous poets of Azerbayijan literature,and his
pen-name is Fizuli.He was born in Karbala.He died of a parague or cholera autbreak.Fizuli
was from a religious a family.He composet his famous Shikayetname.Fizuli reclived good
education,under his father,;who was a muftiand than under a teacher named
Rahmatullah.He learnt the Persian and Arabic language too. He composet poetic works and
‘the important masnavi Hashish and Wine in wich.He compared the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid
Il to hashish on Shah Ismail | to wine.He had a muslim classical work Leyli and
Majnun.Fizule wrote in three languages :works in Azerbayijani: hashish and wine,Leyli and
Majnun,works in Persian:helth an sicness and friend of the heart,works in Arabi fe birth of
faith.His famous work is four thousend couplet long of Leyli and Majnun in Azerbaijani.
Lev Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is a Russian novelist and morel philosopher.He was born on
September 19 in Yasnaya Polyana in arestocreric family.He is a master or realistic fiction
and novels.He lost his mather an father very early.He was educated of home by German and
French tutors.He studied in the Kazan University faculty or Oriental languages and he
changed his speciality into law.He married to Sofia Andreyevna Bers,and he had thirteen
children.His first work is childhood,and he added here "Beyhood" and "Youth".And he wrote
the Cossacks.He served army in the Caucasus.While serving in the Caucasus he wrote three
sketches the Sevastopol during the crimean War,which contains:Sevastopol in December
‘Sevastopol in May,Sevastopol in August. They were published in 1855-56.He wrote about
the caurage of soliders and how they suffered. This work contains 3 features of people
during the war.After getting back from the travelling he decided to become a teacher. He
wrote about his religious belief in my confession.He is known for his long works such as
War and Peace,Anna Karenina.He wrote a number of moral tales as "Where love is god
“Tolstoy published third long novel resurrection.He died in 1910,at the age of 82.
Afzaladdin Khagani Shirvani, one of the famous representatives of the literature of the
Renaissance, was a poet, philosopher and prose writer. His real name was Afzaladdin Badil
Ibrahim ibn Ali Najjar. He was born in the family of a carpenter in the village of Angakharan,
Shamakhi region. Khagani lost his father early; he was brought up by his uncle, Kafiaddin
Umar Shirvani, a physician and astronomer at the court of the Shirvanshah. Mother
Khagani, originally a Nestorian faith, and later converted to Islam, was born in the village of
Malkham. The poet himself had a remarkable knowledge of Christianity, and his poetry is
replete with Christian images and symbols. His philosophy teacher was his cousin. He was
greatly influenced by the famous poet Abul-Ala Ganjavi, who himself introduced him to the
court of the kagan Manuchohr Shirvanshah; there Khagani received his pseudonym from
this king. He also married the daughter of Abul-Al. He is the author of a divan containing
17,000 couplets of lyrical poems, ghazals, rubies, elegies, and 60 letters. The life of a court
poet bored him, and he left the court and went on a trip to the Middle East. Travels gave
him material for his famous poem "Tokhfat-ul-Iraqayn’, moreover, two Iraqs - "Persian Iraq”
and "Arab Iraq". This book was also autobiographical. Here he described his impressions
of the Middle East. He also painted his famous hasida "The Gateway to Madaina". Upon
returning home, Shah Akhsitan gave the order for his imprisonment. He wrote "Habsiyyah"while he was in prison. After his release from prison, he moved with his family to Tabriz.
Here, too, he was unhappy; first his little son died, then his daughter, then his wife. He was
left completely alone, and soon he himself died in Tabriz in 1199. He was buried at the
poet's cemetery in the Surkhab district of Tabriz.
William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on Junuary 1874.He was a wealthy solicitor
in France.When he was ten his parents were died.After an education in King's school and
universities in Germany ,he became a medical student in London.He wrote his first novel
“Liza of lambeth".He sold the book and left medicine and became a full-time writer.He
achieved fame with play lady Frederick a comedy about money and marriage.On the first
World War he joined a Red cross ambulance Unit in France .While serving he met 22 year
American Gerald Haxton.And they became lovers and lived together.A few years laterhe
became an agent.His famous novel is of Human bandage.He developed a reputation as a
short story writer His "The trembling of a leaf "became famous .Plays written by him "The
circle "East of Suez".He wrote his autobiography :Summing up,and
fictions:Catalina,Quartet.William died in 1965.
Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol was a ukranian-born dramatist and novelist, he wrote in Russian.
He was born in March 1809 in Ukraine and died February twenty one in Moscow. Because of
his novel Death souls and short story Shinel'the overcoat " in 1842 he was a father of a
russian realism.
Attge age of 12 he studied at Nezhin and he went to Saint-Petersburg. But he became poor
there.He tried to become an actor, but he was unsuccessful. He wrote a book but was not
famous. He also described demons, witches and fiction based on Ukrainian folklore. He
published in 1831-32 "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka" Alexander Pushkin and Zhukovsky
were his admirers. In 1834 he began to work in St. Petersburg at the university. in 1835 he
published Mirhorod and Arabesque. Gogol published his satirical works The Nose, The
Carriage. The themes of the works Dead Souls and the Inspector General were taken from
Pushkin.All these works describe the bureaucratic lawlessness in Russia. It talks about
Chichikov's plans to get rich. Gogol finished the second Volume of Dead Souls. but he
burned it and died 10 days later.
Lord Byron, one of the greatest British poets. Born January 22, 1788 in London. His real
name was George Gordon Byron. At the age of 10, in 1798, he succeeded to the title of Lord
and became the 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale. But later he added Noel. From birth he was
clubfoot. He received his primary education at Aberdeen High School, then attended Harrow
School in London. In 1803, Byron had affairs with his distant relative Mary Chaworth and
wrote about this passion in several poems, including "The Annesley Hills" and "The
Farewell". From 1805 to 1808, Byron studied intermittently at Trinity College, participated in
many antics and got into deep debt, so he left school and was occupied with boxing,
horseback riding and gambling. In June 1807 he befriended John Hobhouse and was
initiated into liberal politics by joining the Cambridge Whig Club. He lived in Italy for seven
years. The last country he visited was Greece. Here he took part in the Greek War of
Independence, fighting the Ottoman Empire, and the Greeks called him a national hero. He
had love affairs with his married half-sister Augusta, they had a child, but he died. Hereflected his guilt in a series of gloomy and repentant poems "Gyaur", "Abydos Bride" and
"Corsair". After this diversion, Byron proposed to the educated and intellectual Anna Isabella
Milbank, and in January 1815 they were married, and in December of that year they had a
daughter, Augusta Ada, better known as Ada Lovelace. Annabella left Byron. Byron died on
April 19, 1824 at the age of 36. He was deeply mourned in England, and in Greece he
became a hero. His body was brought back to England, but the clergy refused to bury him in
Westminster Abbey, so he was buried in the family vault near Newstead.
Theodore Dreiser is an outstanding American naturalist and writer. He was born in August
1871 in Indiana, USA. His father was German and his mother was of Czech descent.He was
from a poor family and the main theme of his works was poverty.In his novels there are also
social problems in the United States. At the age of 15, he moved to Chicago and became a
dish washer and salesman. He attended Indiana University and then tripled his career as a
reporter. In 1898, he married Sarah White and then separated.
He had an affair with actress Kira and then with his cousin Helen and in the distance from
other girls she tolerated him and in 1944 they were married.He wrote his first novel Sister
Carrie in 1899. it was about a young girl whose immorality went unpunished, it was
forbidden to publish. Family problems led Drazeir to depression, he wanted to commit
suicide but he was saved by his brother. His second novel Jenny Gerdhart in 1911 is about a
woman who wanted to support a family. He later wrote Financier and Titan. and his last
work Stoic.and from impressions of the trip was written by the Forty-Year-Old Traveler a
book about myself was written, My Brother Paul, Twelve Men, The Hand of the Potter. In
1925 was his first novel American Tragedy. Because of a trip to Russia, he became a
communist and wrote America worth saving about politics. in the last years of his life he
could not write and moved to Hollywood. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Dreiser died
in 1945.
Robert Burns the poet of Scotland was born in January and was born in Alloway. His father
was a farmer. He attended mathematics school for a year and attended his father's
adventure school and read French. At the age of 15, he fell in love with the maid Elizabeth.
They had a child and began to write the first poem. He married Jean they had 14 children.
There was his first book, Poems in a Scottish dialect. he wrote The Two Sobs, The Scottish
Drink, The Holy Fair. He also had theatrical poems in English.In Edinburgh, he assisted
James Johnson in collecting songs and worked on the volume of the Scottish Music
Museum - which contributed to his work. He developed rapidly as a poet in 1784-85,
expressing love, friendship and fun in his poems. Works Saturday Night Cotters, Merry
Biggars, Heart in the Mountains. Burns died in July at the age of 37. on the day of her death,
Jean gave birth to a son, Maxwell.
Mikhail Lermontov is a Russian romantic poet. He was born in October in Moscow. His
masterpiece The Hero of Our Time glorified him. Father Yuri Lermontov was a captain. He
lost his father early and was raised by his grandmother Elizaveta Arsenyeva in the Penza
province. Due to the fact that Mikhail was often ill, he went to resorts in the Caucasus three
times. In 1827 he moved with his grandmother to Moscow and began to write poetry. A year
later he wrote the poems Circassians and The Prisoner of the Caucasus. Because of theduel of Lermontov with the son of the ambassador and he was sent to the Caucasus. After
the request of his grandmother, his term was shortened and here he wrote "Meeting’,
“Prophet”. He had health problems and on the way he had a duel with Martynov and died
there in Pyatigorsk. His body was buried in the crypt of the Arsenyevs.
Samad Yusif oglu Vyakilov was born in the village of Salahly in 1906. At the age of 6, he lost
his mother. The childhood of the young poet passed in the village, where he received his
primary education. Samad and his brother were admitted to the Kazakh Teachers’ Seminary.
During his seminary years, his first poems were written. His first poem, "Appeal to Youth,"
was published in a newspaper. He used the pseudonym Vurgun. in 1929 he entered
Moscow University. In the 1940s he published the collection The Book of the Soul, The
Poet's Oath. He married Khawar Khanim. He had 2 sons and one daughter. He translated
Pushkin's Russian work “Eugene Onegin" into Azerbaijani and was awarded a medal, in 1939
he translated the novel by Leyli and Majnun. in 1937 he created the drama "Vagif". Written
by Aigun, Mugan. pressure was put on him, he was forbidden to leave the city, they wanted
to arrest him. Samed Vurgun died on May 27 and was buried in Baku on the Alley of Honor.
He was a People's Artist, Academician of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences.
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