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BELEAGUERED AZERI WRITER'S NOVEL PUBLISHED IN ARMENIAN
http://www.armenianow.com/news/45274/armenia_azerbaijan_karabakh_akram_aylisli_stone_dr eams_published_armenian
NEWS | 12.04.13 | 10:40
Photo: Azadlıq Radiosu (RFE/RL)
A novel by an Azeri writer telling about the massacres of the Armenian
population in Azerbaijan has been published in Armenian.
Akram Aylisli's book, 'Stone Dreams', that led to persecution of its
author in Azerbaijan, has been translated into Armenian and published
by a local publishing house.
The book's publication in a Russian literary magazine late last year
sparked a government-orchestrated outcry in Azerbaijan. Aylisli's
depiction of Armenian massacres in Baku and the negative portrayal
of the killings committed by Azeri refugees from Armenia particularly
sparked criticism against the author.
In February Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev signed a presidential
decree stripping Aylisli of his title of People's Writer and the
presidential pension after he was branded as a betrayer for authoring
such a novel.
Members of the 75-year-old writer have also suffered the consequences
as his son was fired from a government job. Also, a local nationalist
leader promised a handsome reward to anyone who cut Aylisli's ear off.
http://www.armenianow.com/news/45274/armenia_azerbaijan_karabakh_akram_aylisli_stone_dr eams_published_armenian
NEWS | 12.04.13 | 10:40
Photo: Azadlıq Radiosu (RFE/RL)
A novel by an Azeri writer telling about the massacres of the Armenian
population in Azerbaijan has been published in Armenian.
Akram Aylisli's book, 'Stone Dreams', that led to persecution of its
author in Azerbaijan, has been translated into Armenian and published
by a local publishing house.
The book's publication in a Russian literary magazine late last year
sparked a government-orchestrated outcry in Azerbaijan. Aylisli's
depiction of Armenian massacres in Baku and the negative portrayal
of the killings committed by Azeri refugees from Armenia particularly
sparked criticism against the author.
In February Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev signed a presidential
decree stripping Aylisli of his title of People's Writer and the
presidential pension after he was branded as a betrayer for authoring
such a novel.
Members of the 75-year-old writer have also suffered the consequences
as his son was fired from a government job. Also, a local nationalist
leader promised a handsome reward to anyone who cut Aylisli's ear off.