Isa Mughanna İsa Muğanna | |
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Born | Mughanly, Aghstafa District, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR | June 12, 1928
Died | April 1, 2014 Baku, Azerbaijan | (aged 85)
Resting place | Alley of Honor |
Occupation | writer, screenwriter, editor-in-chief |
Alma mater | Azerbaijan State University Maxim Gorky Literature Institute |
Notable awards | |
Isa Mustafa oghlu Huseynov (Azerbaijani: İsa Mustafa oğlu Hüseynov, June 12, 1928 – April 1, 2014) was an Azerbaijani writer, screenwriter and film editor, People's Writer of the Azerbaijan SSR (1988), Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1976).
Isa Mughanna was born on June 12, 1928, in Mughanly village of Aghstafa District. After graduating from high school, he entered the Azerbaijan Medical University (1945), but returned to the village after 4 months. Later, he entered the Faculty of Philology of the Azerbaijan State University. In 1952, he graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.[1]
He worked as the editor of the Literary Department in Azernashr (1952–1954), the head of the prose department in the "Literaturnıy Azerbaydjan" newspaper (1960–1964), the chief editor (1964–1968), editor (1968–1974), member of the Script Council (1974–1979) at the "Azerbaijanfilm" film studio named after J. Jabbarly, and the chief editor of the State Cinematography Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR (1979).[2][3]
Isa Mughanna, who started his literary activity in 1948, wrote "Anadil okhuyan yerda" for the first time in 1949 in the newspaper "Ingilab ve Madaniyyat".[1] His books had been published since the 1950s. Films were made based on his scripts, and his works were translated into foreign languages. The film "26 Baku Commissars" received the best historical-revolutionary film award of the All-Union Leningrad Festival in 1968.[4]
He died on April 1, 2014, in Baku.[4]