Kamran Nazirli

(Azerbaijan, 1958) is known in Azerbaijan as a writer and a translator of English literature in Azeri, a language closely related to Turkish. Since 1997 Nazirli has written several novels and short stories. Society is a Mirror of Politics (1999) was awarded the prestigious Azerbaijan Hassan Zardabi Prize, named after the founder of the first newspaper in Azeri, appearing in 1875. One of Nazirli's short stories to have been translated into English is The Old Baby, about an Azerbaijani refugee family trying to survive. Kamran Nazirli has translated works by English and American writers into Azeri, among them novels and poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde.