Writing Akhundova began her career as a stenographer and then worked as an editor for t
he Committee of Azerbaijani Television and Radio broadcasting from 1977 until 1980. She published her first literary translation –
The Heart of Najiba by Huseyn Ibrahimov – in 1978, and her first scientific article in 1979 in the
Literaturnıy Azerbaydjan magazine. Akhundova worked as a reviewer and adviser for the
Federation of Azerbaijani Writers from 1980 until 1988. She was then a scientific worker in the department of Southern Azerbaijanian literature in the Literature Institute Nizami, and worked as a reported for ''
, Freedom radio station and Turkish world
magazine. She was elected as secretary for the Azerbaijani Writers' Federation
in 1991 and as a member of the State Forgiveness Commission'' in 1995. Akhundova has been a docent of the translation theory and practise department at
Baku Slavic University since 2002. Her compilation and translation ''Azerbaijan's young prose
was published in 1984. Her other books include It is forgiven by rescript
(in Russian) in 2000, A death of polygraphic worker
in 2001, and Reality moment
, Alovsat Guliyev: he was creating a history
, This is us
and Live time'' in 2003. In 2009, her six volume official biography
Heydar Aliyev: Personality and Epoch was released after a decade's research on the national leader.
Politics In 2005, Akhundova became a member of parliament after running as an independent candidate in the
election for District 71 in
Masalli, winning with 29% of the vote over two ruling
New Azerbaijan Party candidates. She became a member of the presidential Commission on Pardoning Issues. Akhundova served as a member of Azerbaijan's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2006 to 2007. == Awards and honors ==