Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Bakhtiyar Vakhabzade is an outstanding poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, publicist and public figure, whose ideal is greatness, desire is purity, goal is sublimity, and his love is beauty. His wonderful lyric "I" with his original individual style has always been associated with his time, land, state and nation, East and West, in a word, with the mysterious world of relations between Time and Man.

Alizade Askarli, Deputy Director for Research, Institute of Literature named after Nizami Ganjavi of ANAS, professor

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