Huseyn Javid was a prominent Azerbaijani poet and playwright of the
early 20th century. He was one of the founders of progressive
romanticism movement in the contemporary Azerbaijani literature, and a
dissident writer exiled during the Stalin purges in the USSR.
Huseyn Javid was born in 1882 to a family of a theologian in Nakhchivan.
Huseyn Javid's first book of lyrical poems titled Kechmish gunlar ("The
Past Days") was published in 1913. However Javid was known more as a
playwright. His philosophical and epic tragedies, and family dramas
introduce a new line of development in Azerbaijani literature.
His arrest was a part of the nation-wide campaign of purge against
intelligentsia. The Soviet government exiled Huseyn Javid to the Far
East, where he died on 5 December 1941 in the city of Magadan.