BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 18. President Ilham
Aliyev and First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva sent a
congratulatory letter to People's Poet Nariman Hasanzade, Trend reports.


"Dear Nariman Hasanzade,


We extend our most sincere congratulations to you, a prominent
representative of modern Azerbaijani literature, on the occasion of
your 95th anniversary, and we wish you robust health.


Remaining loyal to the centuries-old brilliant traditions of our
national literature, you are a master of the word who has bestowed
valuable contributions upon the treasure trove of our people's
poetic thought through your unique style and signature. From the
moment you entered the world of poetry in the 1950s, you brought a
new breath to our literature and earned the special affection of a
wide audience of readers.


Your works, the essence of which consists of love for the
Motherland, feelings of national liberty, adherence to traditional
values, and a call for spiritual loftiness, have always kept you at
the forefront of the literary process. The feelings and thoughts of
our contemporaries have found their full artistic expression in
your poems, which are distinguished by their tenderness, sincerity,
clarity of language, and natural flow. In your epics and verse
plays, which reflect the people's memory in poetry, you have
brought to life the fateful events and great personalities of
distant and recent periods of our history through the light of
historical truths and in a spirit of deep patriotism and national
statehood. These works, which celebrate the resilience and heroism
of the Azerbaijani people, have been successfully staged in
theaters.


In harmony with your literary personality, your fruitful
activity as a scholar, pedagogue, and public figure is a vivid
example of dignified service to the Motherland and the people.


We believe that your creative work, which instills loyalty to
the national ideology and moral purity, will continue to play a
significant role in the formation of the national self-awareness of
the younger generation," the letter reads.