December 29 is the birthday of Azerbaijani poet, publicist, and screenwriter Nusrat Kesemenli.
Oxu.Az reminds that Nusrat Kesemenli was born in 1946 in the Agstafa district.
In 1966, he entered the journalism faculty of Azerbaijan State University (now Baku State University).
While in the second year of university, in 1969, he transferred to the correspondence department because he was accepted as a correspondent and literary worker for the newspapers "Bakı" and "Baku". After graduating from university, from 1978 to 1985 he worked as a referent and literary advisor at the Azerbaijan Writers' Union.
He began his literary creativity in the early 1960s. Music was composed for around 150 of his poems. He is the scriptwriter for documentary films such as "The Cry of Empty Villages," "Improvisation on the Subject," "Guarding the Anbizes," "Journey to Soviet Azerbaijan," and feature films like "Arms of Aphrodite," "The Karabakh Story." He participated in the VI and VII All-Union conferences of young writers in Moscow.
From 1981 to 1984, he was an active public figure: elected chairman of the Trade Union Committee at the Azerbaijan Writers' Union, a candidate member of the board of the republican committee of the cultural workers' trade union, a member of the Azerbaijan Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, a member of the board and chairman of the poetry council at the VI and VII congresses of the Azerbaijan Writers' Union. Since 1985, he worked as the chief editor at Azerbaijanfilm film studio named after J. Jabbarly.
Since 1985, he has been the scriptwriter and host of the documentary television program "Window to the World." He passed away on October 15, 2003, in Tabriz.
He was one of the founders of the Civic Solidarity Party and among the first members of the CSP Supreme Assembly (Supreme Council).
He became better known in Azerbaijan for his love poems and wrote lyrics for many songs. At the same time, Nusrat Kesemenli opened another chapter in Azerbaijani literature with his poems written in the genre of love.
His famous poems include "I No Longer Believe in Fairy Tales," "Once Upon a Time," "If I Forget You," "May the Homeland Ignite Your Fire," "One Day This World Will Be Without Me," "I Want to Be a Thief," "Shadow Under the Tree," "Let the Sheep Eat the Wolves," "When Offended by Love," "If It Is Not," "I Feel Sorry for That Tree," "You Do Not Believe Me Like a Dream," "Do Not Believe, My Dear, Believe, My Dear."
