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Azeri writer's novel published in Armenian
15:46 12.04.2013
Akram Aylisli
Alisa Gevorgyan
`Radiolur'
Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli's novel `Stone Dreams' has been
published in Armenian. The novel has been translated by Leonid
Zilfugharyan and published by `Nork' publishing house.
Aylisli's novel tells about the Agulis, the writer's birthplace.
Leonid Zilfugharyan says Aylisl's novel is very honest.
Aylisli's novel was like a bomb blast in an atmosphere filled with
anti-Armenian propaganda. For the first time an Azerbaijani writer
dared speak about Armenians not as `bitter enemies,' about Armenians
he lived side-by-side in Agulis and Baku, about Armenians, whose trace
has been erased from those places.
According to writer and publisher Ruben Hovsepyan, Aylisli's novel was
a light in the darkness, which comes to say that not everything is
lost in that society. `The novel is not anti-Azerbaijani, as his
compatriots insist. On the contrary, the writer raises the image of
Azerbaijanis in his book, for which his country should have been
grateful to him,' Ruben Hovsepyan said.
Akram Aylisli faced persecutions in Azerbaijan after the novel was
published in the Russian `Druzhba Narodov' magazine. His books were
burnt, the author received a number of threats. According to
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's decree, the writer was stripped
of his presidential pension and the honorary title of People's Writer
of Azerbaijan.
After the book was published in Armenian, people in Azerbaijan started
saying Armenians violate the copyrights of the Azerbaijani author.
In the novel Aylisli writes about a little girl named Lusik, who was
always visiting her grandmother in Agulis. The little girl was
ethnographer Lusik Aguletsi, who told about her meeting with Akram
Aylisli in one of the recent interviews. What unites the two is their
great love for Agulis, which has been renamed Aylis after the
massacres.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/04/12/azeri-writers-novel-published-in-armenian/
15:46 12.04.2013
Akram Aylisli
Alisa Gevorgyan
`Radiolur'
Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli's novel `Stone Dreams' has been
published in Armenian. The novel has been translated by Leonid
Zilfugharyan and published by `Nork' publishing house.
Aylisli's novel tells about the Agulis, the writer's birthplace.
Leonid Zilfugharyan says Aylisl's novel is very honest.
Aylisli's novel was like a bomb blast in an atmosphere filled with
anti-Armenian propaganda. For the first time an Azerbaijani writer
dared speak about Armenians not as `bitter enemies,' about Armenians
he lived side-by-side in Agulis and Baku, about Armenians, whose trace
has been erased from those places.
According to writer and publisher Ruben Hovsepyan, Aylisli's novel was
a light in the darkness, which comes to say that not everything is
lost in that society. `The novel is not anti-Azerbaijani, as his
compatriots insist. On the contrary, the writer raises the image of
Azerbaijanis in his book, for which his country should have been
grateful to him,' Ruben Hovsepyan said.
Akram Aylisli faced persecutions in Azerbaijan after the novel was
published in the Russian `Druzhba Narodov' magazine. His books were
burnt, the author received a number of threats. According to
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's decree, the writer was stripped
of his presidential pension and the honorary title of People's Writer
of Azerbaijan.
After the book was published in Armenian, people in Azerbaijan started
saying Armenians violate the copyrights of the Azerbaijani author.
In the novel Aylisli writes about a little girl named Lusik, who was
always visiting her grandmother in Agulis. The little girl was
ethnographer Lusik Aguletsi, who told about her meeting with Akram
Aylisli in one of the recent interviews. What unites the two is their
great love for Agulis, which has been renamed Aylis after the
massacres.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/04/12/azeri-writers-novel-published-in-armenian/