Kamran Nazirli Explained

Kamran Nazirli
Birth Date:19 June 1958
Birth Place:Astara, Azerbaijan
Occupation:Author, translator
Genre:novel, story
Notableworks:The Light of Devil, The Fourth Seal
Awards:Gold Word Prize for the translation book (2011), International Rasul Rza Prize for literature (2016)

Kamran Nazirli (born 19 June 1958) is an Azerbaijani writer, dramatist and translator. He is a member of the Azerbaijani and Belarus Writers' Union and Journalists' Union of Azerbaijan. He was awarded with the Prize of H.B. Zardabi, the founder of the Azerbaijani National Press, Rasul Rza Prize for literature.

Life

Nazirli was born in Astara in 1958 and moved to Baku in 1975, where he studied in the English faculty at the Azerbaijani Institute of Foreign Languages. He received his PhD with a thesis in Linguistics. He also graduated from the Baku Institute of Social Management and Politics and worked as a correspondent in various newspapers and State Information Agencies (Azerinform) as a translator in various international companies and projects financed by the World Bank. He is a Member of the Azerbaijani Writers' Union and the author of several books such as Love Story, Among the Natives, The Devil's Light, Selected Stories, The White House, and A Man in Coma.

He received the "Gold Word" prize from the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2011 for his translation of the book entitled Nobody Ever Dies and was awarded a special prize from the USA Embassy in Azerbaijan for his translation book Moby Dick by Herman Melville and international Prize named after Rasul Rza for literature.

Kamran Nazirli has translated works by English and American novelists and poets into Azeri such as Jack London, Oscar Wilde, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Mitchell, Edgar Allan Poe, John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, Harold Pinter, etc. He also translates works by Azerbaijani writers and poets into English.

Works

Plays

Translated Books

Awards

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Writers Unlimited. Writers Unlimited. 22 December 2018.
  2. Web site: Azerbaijani Literature – Kamran Nazirli. Azeri.org. 22 December 2018.
  3. Web site: Echo Gods and Silent Mountains. Facebook.com. 22 December 2018.
  4. Web site: Nazirli-I_dont_now . 2014-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230047/http://www.translit.az/ELEKTRON%20KITABXANA/AZERIEDEBIYXARICIDIL/ENG_DILINDE/Nazirli/Nazirli-I_dont_now.htm . 2016-03-03 . dead .
  5. Web site: Nazirli-Shadow . 2014-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215719/http://www.translit.az/ELEKTRON%20KITABXANA/AZERIEDEBIYXARICIDIL/ENG_DILINDE/Nazirli/Nazirli-Shadow.htm . 2016-03-03 . dead .
  6. Web site: 12.1 – Short Story – Kamran Nazirli – The Old Baby (2003). Azer.com. 22 December 2018.
  7. Book: Libraries in the early 21st century, volume 1: An international perspective. Ravindra N.. Sharma. IFLA. Headquarters. 27 December 2011. Walter de Gruyter. 86. 9783110270631. 22 December 2018. Google Books.
  8. http://www.tropentheater.nl/Event?activiteitid=5173
  9. Web site: Камран Назирли. "Наркоман". | Созвучие . 2015-07-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150724115142/http://sozvuchie.zviazda.by/news/2015-06-18-3 . 2015-07-24 . dead .

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