Ahmad Sattar oglu Jamilzadeh (Ahmad Jamil) was born on October 20, 1913 in the city of Iravan, Iravan province, in the family of an artist. He received his primary and secondary education in Ganja.

His first poem “Beautiful Caucasus” was published in 1928 in “Gızıl Ganja” magazine. Actively participated in the Ganja branch of the Society of Proletarian Writers of Azerbaijan. Then he continued his studies at the Faculty of Literature of the Higher Pedagogical Institute in Baku (1930–1933). He was a Methodist in the village of Zayam of Shamkir region (1933–1936), then in Ganja (1936–1940). From September 1940, he worked as a consultant in the poetry department of the Azerbaijan Soviet Union of Writers, as a literary worker and secretary in charge of “Literary Newspaper”, then he was elected as the secretary of the union (1940–1942).

During the Second World War, Ahmad Jamil worked in the editorial offices of North Caucasian and Crimean front newspapers (1942–1943). In 1944–1948, he worked as the executive secretary of the Board of Writers’ Union. In 1950, he worked as a consultant in the Writers’ Union of Azerbaijan, and in 1951, he worked as a temporary editor in “Literary Newspaper”. Editor at “Azernashr” (1953–1955), consultant at the Ministry of Culture of the Azerbaijan SSR (1956–1959), editor of “Azerbaijan” magazine (1959–1960), editor-in-chief of “Azernashr” (1962–1963), editor of “Youth” ” publishing house (1964–1967), and as a editor-in-chief at “Ulduz” magazine (1973–1977). He made translations into Azerbaijani from Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Uzbek, Belarusian, Tajik, etc.

Ahmad Jamil died in 1977 in Baku. After his death, in 1980, he was awarded the State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Nazim Mustafa
Doctor of philosophy in history, recipient of the State Prize