Baloğlan Cəlil

Baloglan Jalil ogly Rzayev, known as Baloglan Jalil, was born on July 20, 1959 in the village of Zavilya, Lankaran region. In 1976 he graduated from Zavil secondary school, in 1984 - from the philological faculty of Azerbaijan State University. In 1987–1990 he taught in secondary schools in the villages of Zavilya and Separadi. Since 1990 he has lived in Ufa, Bashkortostan. Received higher education at the Ufa Institute of Civil Engineers. Author of the books «Bənovşə ətri» (1996), «Körpə harayı» (1997), «İşıq ucu» (2006). His books «Qurbət türküləri» (2013) and «Unudulmaz məktub» (2016) were published in Turkey. In 2013–2015, his poems in Russian were published in the almanac “Istoki”. The poems have been translated into Turkish, Bashkir, Tatar, English and Russian. Member of the Azerbaijan Writers Union.

Biographical information follows the 2021 edition.