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Afag Masud (Azerbaijani: Afaq Məsud) (b. 3 June 1957, Baku) is an Azerbaijani writer.

This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. (November 2014)

Contributions

Born Afag Masud qizi Valiyeva in Baku, Azerbaijan, she became interested in professional writing in her teenage years. She wrote and published her first novel Gargish ("Curse") in 1978, at the age of 21. In the following years, she published 8 more novels as well as numerous short stories, essays and plays. In her works, Masud uses psychologism to emphasize the experiences of her protagonists. She abandons the idea of setting novels in a specific locale pointing out the universal nature of the described issues. Even though almost all of the protagonists in her works are female and the problems dealt with are for the most part gender-specific, Masud disagrees with those who consider her a feminist writer.[1]

She is also famous for translating works by authors such as Franz Kafka, Guy de Maupassant and Gabriel Garcia Marquez into Azeri.[1] She currently works as the editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijani literary magazine Khazar.

List of works

• Qarğış
• Keçid
• Üzü işığa
• Cəza
• Suiti
• Fatma
• İzdiham
• Azadlıq
• II İohann
• Yataqxana ("Dormitory", read in English)
• The Crash, read in English
• The Sparrows, read in English
• The death of the Rabbit, read in English

References

На других языках

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- [en] Afag Masud

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[ru] Масуд, Афаг

Афаг Масуд (род. 3 июня 1957, Баку) — азербайджанская писательница и драматург. Председатель правления Центра Перевода Азербайджана, Кавалер ордена «Слава» (2017), Народный писатель Азербайджана (2019), Заслуженный деятель искусств Азербайджана (2005), действительный член Петровской Академии Наук и Искусств (ПАНИ). Главный редактор журнала мировой литературы «Хазар».

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