Elchin Safarli (Azerbaijani: Elçin Səfərli, Russian: Эльчин Сафарли) was born on March 12, 1984, in Baku, Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union. He is an Azerbaijani novelist and journalist who has written and published ten novels in Russian. A composer named Asya Sultanova has turned some of his work into music.