Isa Mughanna

Isa Mustafa oghlu Huseynov (İsa Mustafa oğlu Hüseynov, June 12, 1928 – April 1, 2014) was an Azerbaijani writer, screenwriter and film editor, People's Writer of the Azerbaijan SSR (1988), Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1976).

Biography
Isa Mughanna was born on June 12, 1928, in Mughanly village of Aghstafa District. After graduating from high school, he entered the Azerbaijan Medical University (1945), but returned to the village after 4 months. Later, he entered the Faculty of Philology of the Azerbaijan State University. In 1952, he graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.

He worked as the editor of the Literary Department in Azernashr (1952–1954), the head of the prose department in the "Literaturnıy Azerbaydjan" newspaper (1960–1964), the chief editor (1964–1968), editor (1968–1974), member of the Script Council (1974–1979) at the "Azerbaijanfilm" film studio named after J. Jabbarly, and the chief editor of the State Cinematography Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR (1979).

Isa Mughanna, who started his literary activity in 1948, wrote "Anadil okhuyan yerda" for the first time in 1949 in the newspaper "Ingilab ve Madaniyyat". His books had been published since the 1950s. Films were made based on his scripts, and his works were translated into foreign languages. The film "26 Baku Commissars" received the best historical-revolutionary film award of the All-Union Leningrad Festival in 1968.

He died on April 1, 2014, in Baku.

Awards

 * Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR – December 23, 1976
 * Diploma and prize of the Writers' Union of Kyrgyzstan — 1976
 * Order of the Badge of Honour — 1978
 * People's Writer of the Azerbaijan SSR – June 23, 1988
 * Istiglal Order — June 11, 1998
 * "Nasimi" Award — 2012