Home Azerbaijan Politics President Ilham Aliyev shares post on death of People's Poet Nariman Hasanzade (PHOTO) Politics Materials 1 August 2026 21:25 (UTC +04:00) of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mugaddas Mustafayev Read more BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 1. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev shared a post on his social media pages in connection with the death of People's Poet Nariman Hasanzade. The post reads: "The Azerbaijani cultural community has suffered a heavy loss.
The prominent representative of modern Azerbaijani literature, Heydar Aliyev Prize laureate, recipient of the President’s personal pension, Honored Artist, People's Poet Nariman Alimammad oglu Hasanzada passed away on August 1, 2026, at the age of 96. Nariman Hasanzada was born on February 2, 1931, in the village of Poylu, Gazakh district. After completing secondary school, he studied at the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Hasan bey Zardabi Ganja State Pedagogical Institute from 1949 to 1953, and from 1957 to 1961 at the M.
Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. Hasanzada completed his postgraduate studies at the Baku State University between 1962 and 1965, subsequently defending his dissertation to receive the Candidate of Sciences degree. Nariman Hasanzada began his career in 1962, holding different positions at the “Azerbaijani Youth” newspaper, the “Azerbaijan” magazine, and the Azerbaijan Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee.
Serving as the editor-in-chief of the “Literature and Art” newspaper from 1978 to 1991, he worked tirelessly to further enhance the newspaper’s influence across the literary and social environment. From 1991 to 2001, Hasanzada served as the First Deputy Minister of Press and Information of the Republic of Azerbaijan, also taking the role of Acting Minister. From 2001 until his passing, he chaired the Department of Humanities at the National Aviation Academy.
Nariman Hasanzada, a great master of words, breathed new life into our literature from the moment he entered the world of poetry. Remaining faithful to the centuries-old bright traditions of national literature, the poet made an invaluable contribution to the poetic treasury of the Azerbaijani people with his unique style of expression. His works, centered on love for the homeland, feelings of national freedom, attachment to traditional values, and a call for spiritual enlightenment, have always kept him at the vanguard of the literary process.
Distinguished by their melancholy, sincerity, fluency, and naturalness, the poet’s works reflect the thoughts and feelings of our contemporaries. In his poems and verse plays, Nariman Hasanzada revived crucial historical events and great personalities of our past in the light of historical truth, illuminating them through the lens of deep patriotism and national statehood. These works, which celebrate the struggle and heroism of the Azerbaijani people, have been successfully staged in theaters, earning the heartfelt acclaim of audiences.
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