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An exhibition titled “Writer and Publicist Almaz Ulvi” has been opened at the National Library of Azerbaijan on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the birth of writer-publicist, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Navoi scholar, and researcher and promoter of Uzbek literature, Almaz Ulvi.

The exhibition showcases works authored by Almaz Ulvi, including monographs, textbooks, books she compiled, prepared for publication, wrote forewords to, or edited, as well as literature about her creativity in Azerbaijani and foreign languages, and materials from the periodical press.

It should be noted that Almaz Qasim gizi Binnatova (Almaz Ulvi) was born on August 8, 1960, in the village of Kesemen, Goycha district, in a teacher’s family. She graduated with distinction from secondary school in her native village (1967–1977) and pursued higher education at Baku State University (1978–1984).

From 1986 to 1988, she completed a two-year Persian language course at the Azerbaijan University of Languages.

In 1995, Almaz Ulvi defended her PhD dissertation on “The Reflection of the Struggle for Democracy and National Independence in Poetry”, and in 2010, her doctoral dissertation on “The Works of Uzbek Classics in 20th-Century Azerbaijani Literary Studies”.

She has regularly contributed scholarly, literary, historical, and publicistic articles to the press. Her academic articles have been published in various newspapers, journals, books, almanacs, and scientific collections, as well as in several well-known international journals in Turkish, Uzbek, Russian, English, Georgian, Tatar, and other languages.

Since the 1990s, she has published a number of books. Among them are: “Poeziyada milli-azadlig duyguları” (National-Liberation Sentiments in Poetry, 1997) and “Ulvileshen Ulvim” (1998), dedicated to the young martyr-poet Ulvi Bunyadzade; “Ulvi duygularim” (1990), “Bir olumun acigina” (1993), “Omrum senin eshgindi” (1998), “Senin oxsharin benovshedi” (2005), “Omur yolu” (Poem in 2 Languages, 2009), “Omur yolu” (Poem in 5 Languages, 2009), and others, which she compiled, edited, and prepared for publication, often writing forewords as well.

Almaz Ulvi dedicated 30 years of her scholarly career to the study of Uzbek literature in Azerbaijan. In particular, she published works on Alisher Navoi and Uzbek literature, such as: “Azerbaijani-Uzbek (Chagatai) Literary Relations” (2008), “Azerbaijani-Uzbek Literary Relations: Periods, Figures, Genres and Trends” (2008), “Alisher Navoi in Azerbaijani Literary Studies” (2009), “O’zbek adabiyoti va Ozarbayjon (Studies, Literary Portraits)” (2016), “From the History of Oriental Tazkiras” (2019), “Alisher Navoi. Wise Sayings” (in Azerbaijani and Uzbek, 2020), “The Century and Prose of Alisher Navoi” (2020), “Nizami Ganjavi and Alisher Navoi: Tradition and Innovation” (2021), “Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur and Azerbaijan” (2022), and many more. In total, she has published over 250 scholarly articles.

Furthermore, for the first time in the history of Azerbaijani-Uzbek literary relations, she co-authored the “Azerbaijani–Uzbek, Uzbek–Azerbaijani Dictionary (25,000 Words)”.