Bakir Nabiyev - Head of Prize Commission, academician

MEMBERS OF COMMISSION:

Anar Rzayev - Head of the Writers’ Union of Azerbaijan, People’s Writer;
Vagif Samedoglu - Member Milli Majlis, People’s Poet;
Fattah Heydarov - Member Milli Majlis;
Husseinbala Miralamov - Member Milli Majlis, playwright;
Adalat Veliyev - Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism;
Farhad Badalbeyli - Rector, Baku Music Academy, People’s Artist of Azerbaijan, State Prize Laureate, Professor;
Kamal Abdulla - Rector, Baku Slav University, Honoured Science Worker;
Farhad Khalilov - Head of Artists’ Union; People’s Artist;
Azer Pasha Nematov - Head of Theatre Workers’ Union, People’s Artist, Professor;
Elchin Shikhli - Head of Journalists’ Union, Honoured Journalist of Azerbaijan;


«The Ilyas Efendiyev Prize» for «Services to the Development of Literature, Culture and Education» goes to Member Milli Majlis, Goodwill Ambassador UNESCO and ISESCO, President of Haydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva







«The Ilyas Afandiyev Prize» for « The foreigner’s good turn of fairly appreciating and propagation of Azerbaijani truth» goes to Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus








«The Ilyas Efendiyev Prize» for «Propagation culture and art of Azerbaijan Republic abroad» goes to President of “Duna Television” Laszlo Cselenyi