RAFIBEYLI, NIGAR KHUDADAT GIZI
(1913-1981)
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Nigar Khudadat gizi Rafibeyli
(in azeri, Nigar Xudadat qızı Rəfibəyli; July
23, 1913, Elizavetpol (now Ganja) - July 9, 1981, Baku) - Azerbaijan
poetess, the spouse of the poet Rasul Rza and mother of the writer
Anar. 
Nigar Rafibeyli was born in the family of the surgeon
Khudadat Rafibeyli, who held the position of a governor of the
Ganja province in the years of pre-soviet independence of Azerbaijan
(1918-1920). He happened to be among so many Azerbaijan political
men who were executed by bolshevists in June, 1920 on the island
Nargen.
Having left the secondary school in Ganja, Nigar
Rafibeyli entered Baku Pedagogic Technical School. In 1928 her
first poem "Chadra" was published in the journal "Dan Ulduzu".
In 1931 she worked as a translator in the department of fiction
at the Publishing House "Azerneshr", and then she continued studying
at Moscow Pedagogic Institute. Meanwhile, her first collection
of poems was published in Baku (1934).
On coming back from Moscow, Nigar Rafibeyli worked
as an editor of the fiction department at the Publishing House
"Ushagneshr". From 1940 to the end of the life Nigar Rafibeyli
wrote poems and translated works of poets and writers of the USSR
peoples into the Azerbaijani language. She was awarded with the
Prize "Glory" for the creative merits.
One of the central streets of Baku was named after
Nigar Rafibeyli.
