Dilara Aliyeva

Dilyara Alakbar qizi Aliyeva (Dilarə Əliyeva) (14 December 1929 – 19 April 1991) was an Azerbaijani philologist, translator and Women's rights activist and Member of Supreme Council of Azerbaijan from 1990–1991.

Dilyara Aliyeva was born to the family of a blacksmith in Tbilisi, Georgia.

She received secondary education in the local Azeri-language school.

She studied Oriental studies at Baku State University.

After receiving her B.A., she was admitted to a graduate program at the Nizami Institute of Language and Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan from which she switched to the Rustaveli Institute of Literature of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

She worked on a dissertation on Reflection of Azerbaijani-Georgian literary relations in the literature of the XIX century and defended it in 1954.

She later worked in several positions in the Nizami Institute studying the literary heritage of the Medieval poet Nizami and historical interactions and comparison between Azeri and Georgian literatures.

Aliyeva became a senior researcher at the Institute and then head of the department of ancient and medieval literature.

She was also a senior researcher in the department of literary relations and a senior researcher in the department of legal studies.

She was a member of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan from 1960.

In 1988 she received her Ph.D. in philology and joined the Azerbaijan Popular Front, where she soon became one of its executives.

Dilara Aliyeva founded the Azerbaijan Association for the Protection of Women's Rights.

She died on 19 April 1991 in a car crash (in which the philologist Aydin Mammadov was also killed) and was buried in Baku.

A street in Baku and the association founded by Dilyara Aliyeva were named after her.

Original publications in Azerbaijani:

Aliyeva was also the author of several translations into Azerbaijani: