| Parikhanim Mikayilgizi | |
| Native Name: | Pərixanım Mikayılqızı |
| Native Name Lang: | az |
| Birth Place: | Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR |
| Education: | Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts |
Parikhanim Mikayilgizi Muradova (Pashayeva) (Azerbaijani: Azerbaijani: Pərixanım Mikayılqızı) is an Azerbaijani poet, writer and publicist, who has been a member of the Union of Journalists of Azerbaijan. She is a researcher of the life and work of Firidun bey Kocherli.
Perikhanim Mikailgizi Muradova was born in Baku. She graduated from the cultural and educational faculty of the Art Institute named after M.A. Aliyev (now Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts).[1] [2]
She started working in the Binagadi district Department of Social Protection of the population, then worked as a department head and director. Since 1999, she has worked as the chief bibliographer and head of the Department of the State Archive of Political Parties and Social Movements of the National Archives Department. Later, she worked as a leading consultant, head of the department and director of the scientific library in the Archive of Political Documents of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan and was the chief adviser to the civil service.[3] [4]
Currently, she is the editor-in-chief of the newspapers of the Baku Educational Center Voice of the East and Azerbaijani: Elm və təhsil (Science and Education).[5] She nominated her candidacy in the first municipal elections held in Azerbaijan. In 2006–2017, she was the chairman of the first party organization of the PEA Archive. Currently, she is a member of the Board of the Women's Council of the Binagadi Regional Organization of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP).[6]
Mikailkizi is the author of 7 books and more than 100 scientific and journalistic articles and short stories published in periodicals. She published Firidun bey Kocharli's Azerbaijani: Əsərləri (Works) in 2013 and his book Azerbaijani: Balalara hədiyyə (Gift to Children) in 2016, translating them from Cyrillic script to the Latin alphabet.[7] [8] She is the author of the scientific monograph F. B. Kocherli: From the Ummah – nation, dedicated to the life and work of the writer. Her works including Homeland, Buta, Turan, Iron Fist, Peak, Ziya, My dear Azerbaijan, Karabakh is Azerbaijan, I am the voice of Shirvan, Baku-Tabriz, Victory, N. Ganjavi Peak of our poetry, Wreath of Poetry, etc. are published in literary collections, almanacs and magazines.[9]
Her articles and poems dedicated to veterans of the First Karabakh War and the Second Karabakh War are published in various media. Composers Elchin Atayev, Ruslan Zeynalov and Fuad Musayev wrote songs based on more than 20 of her poems, singers Lala Mammadova, Jahangir Gurbanov, Fuad Musayev, Oksana Aslanova, Sona Zeynalli, and others performed her songs. Mikailgizi has been awarded with several honorary diplomas and medals of Azerbaijan and Turkey. She is married and has three children and 8 grandchildren.[10]