Chingiz Alakbarzadeh

Chingiz Alakbarzadeh
Born	17 October 1936
Died	7 January 1999
Occupation	journalist, writer

Chingiz Abulhasan oghlu Alakbarzadeh (Azerbaijani: Çingiz Əbülhəsən oğlu Ələkbərzadə) was a journalist and writer.

Biography

He was born on October 17, 1936, in Baku in the family of Abulhasan Alakbarzadeh, a national writer of Azerbaijan.

In 1955, he graduated from the Pushkin Secondary School in Tovuz. Chingiz wanted to become a musician, but his father was against it. Therefore, after graduating from high school, Chingiz entered the Philological faculty of the Azerbaijan State University.

After graduating from the university, Chingiz worked as a teacher in different cities of Azerbaijan. He was the editor of the newspapers Işiq and Zəhmətkeş. Then he heads the news department at the Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Company. Throughout this period, he composes, writes, publishes a number of books: Yarpaqlar tokuləndə, Gullələr dənizdə sonur, Qızıl yəhərli at, Vulkan and others.

In 1986, Chingiz Alakbarzadeh was illegally sentenced to two years and eight months, but in 1988 he was rehabilitated. However, this affected his work in the novel Zindan and the autobiographical book Türmə mənim ahımdır.