Sakina Akhundzadeh

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Sakina Akhundzadeh
Born1865
Quba
Died1927
Quba
EducationQuba
Occupation(s)Teacher and playwright

Sakina Mirza Heybat qizi Akhundzadeh (

Azerbaijani literature.[1]

Life and contributions

Sakina Akhundzadeh was home-schooled by her father who was a poet writing under the pen-name Fada. Her later attempts to establish secular education in Quba ended in a tragic way: religious fanatics retaliated by killing Akhundzadeh's husband.

Czarina Alexandra. The local theatre was also funded by Taghiyev.[4]

She began her career as a playwright upon founding a drama club at that school and adapting her plays to stage performance by the students. Her first play entitled Elmin manfaati ("The Benefit of Science") was staged for the first time in 1904. Encouraged by the successful performance, Akhundzadeh went on to write more plays; among them, Hagg soz aji olar ("Truth Hurts") and Galin va gayinana ("Daughter-in-Law and Mother-in-Law"). This was a time of change, in 1901, Baku had seen the first female actresses appearing without veils. Following a more liberal approach by the Czarist government, freedoms such as the first magazine written by and for women was in seen in 1911. Sakina was to be acknowledged as the first

feminist playwright,[4] with many of her plays dealing with the plight of Azeri women.[5]

In 1911,

Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy). The performance was a great success and brought fame to Akhundzadeh leading to her being recognized as the first female Azeri playwright in history.[6]

Sakina Akhundzadeh was also known for writing fiction. In 1918, she published her novel Shahzadeh Abulfaz va Rana khanim. The novel also contained poetic verses composed of 260 hemistiches.[6]

References

  1. ^ (in Azerbaijani) 130 Years of the Three Centuries by Ilham Rahimli
  2. ^ Fuad Akhundov. Educating Women to Educate a Nation. UNDP, 2007; p. 110.
  3. ^ Women in Culture and the Arts. Azerbaijan Gender Information Portal
  4. ^ a b Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan By Farideh Heyat 2002 Routledge accessed 20 October 2007
  5. ISBN 978-0-7007-1662-3
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  6. ^ a b Women, Beauty and Sanctity by Sabir Ganjali. Azerbaijan Publishing House, 2001
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