Tweet
Akram Aylisli denies news on leaving Azerbaijan
11:45, 27 April, 2013
YEREVAN, APRIL 27, ARMENPRESS. The author of "Stone Dreams" novel
dedicated to the pogroms of the Armenian population in Azerbaijan,
Akram Aylisli denies news of the Azerbaijani media that he has left
Azerbaijan to find a refuge in foreign countries. In a conversation
with Azerbaijani kulis.az news website Akram Aylisli stated: "I am in
Baku and I am not going to move to anywhere."
As reports "Armenpress", previously the Azerbaijani media published
information referring to Akram Aylisli's son, according to which
Aylisli had left Azerbaijan to find a refuge in other country.
Notwithstanding the author denied that news without clarifying the
reasons, which made his son to tell the media that Aylisli had left
Azerbaijan. Among other things Akram Aylisli stated: "I don't even
think about migration."
Aylisli's "Stone Dreams" novel caused a lot of noise and hysteria in
Azerbaijan. On February 7, 2013, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham
Aliyev signed a presidential decree that stripped Aylisli of the title
of "People's Writer" and the presidential pension. Earlier, Aylisli
confirmed reports that his son, a customs official, and wife were
dismissed from their jobs. Hafiz Haciyev, the leader of the
pro-government political party Muasir Musavat (Modern Equality), said
his party would pay $13,000 to anyone who would cut Aylisli's ear off.
Aylisli was born in the village of Aylis in 1937 in the Ordubad region
of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He received
his higher education at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in
Moscow. His first work, a poem entitled "QeĊ?em ve onun Kürekeni", was
published in the journal Azerbaycan. From 1968-70, he became the
editor-in-chief of Gençlik, and later worked as a satirist for the
journal Mozalan. From 1974-78, he served on the Azerbaijan SSR's State
Committee for Cinematography.
In late 2012 and early 2013, Aylisli found himself embroiled in
controversy when his novel, DaĊ? Yuxular (Stone Dreams), was published
in a Russian-language journal called Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of
the Peoples). Completed in 2007, the novel tells the story of two
Azerbaijani men and their efforts to protect their Armenian neighbors
during the Sumgait and Baku Pogroms in the closing years of the Soviet
Union. Many in Azerbaijan took offense to Aylisli's sympathetic
portrayal of Armenians, with whom they fought and lost a six year-long
conflict over control of the region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the early
1990s.
The US Department of State, OSCE Baku Office and European Union
condemned the actions held in Baku against Akram Aylisli and appealed
to the Azerbaijani authorities to fulfill their obligations protecting
the writer.
"Stone dreams" was translated into Armenian as well.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
11:45, 27 April, 2013
YEREVAN, APRIL 27, ARMENPRESS. The author of "Stone Dreams" novel
dedicated to the pogroms of the Armenian population in Azerbaijan,
Akram Aylisli denies news of the Azerbaijani media that he has left
Azerbaijan to find a refuge in foreign countries. In a conversation
with Azerbaijani kulis.az news website Akram Aylisli stated: "I am in
Baku and I am not going to move to anywhere."
As reports "Armenpress", previously the Azerbaijani media published
information referring to Akram Aylisli's son, according to which
Aylisli had left Azerbaijan to find a refuge in other country.
Notwithstanding the author denied that news without clarifying the
reasons, which made his son to tell the media that Aylisli had left
Azerbaijan. Among other things Akram Aylisli stated: "I don't even
think about migration."
Aylisli's "Stone Dreams" novel caused a lot of noise and hysteria in
Azerbaijan. On February 7, 2013, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham
Aliyev signed a presidential decree that stripped Aylisli of the title
of "People's Writer" and the presidential pension. Earlier, Aylisli
confirmed reports that his son, a customs official, and wife were
dismissed from their jobs. Hafiz Haciyev, the leader of the
pro-government political party Muasir Musavat (Modern Equality), said
his party would pay $13,000 to anyone who would cut Aylisli's ear off.
Aylisli was born in the village of Aylis in 1937 in the Ordubad region
of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He received
his higher education at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in
Moscow. His first work, a poem entitled "QeĊ?em ve onun Kürekeni", was
published in the journal Azerbaycan. From 1968-70, he became the
editor-in-chief of Gençlik, and later worked as a satirist for the
journal Mozalan. From 1974-78, he served on the Azerbaijan SSR's State
Committee for Cinematography.
In late 2012 and early 2013, Aylisli found himself embroiled in
controversy when his novel, DaĊ? Yuxular (Stone Dreams), was published
in a Russian-language journal called Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of
the Peoples). Completed in 2007, the novel tells the story of two
Azerbaijani men and their efforts to protect their Armenian neighbors
during the Sumgait and Baku Pogroms in the closing years of the Soviet
Union. Many in Azerbaijan took offense to Aylisli's sympathetic
portrayal of Armenians, with whom they fought and lost a six year-long
conflict over control of the region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the early
1990s.
The US Department of State, OSCE Baku Office and European Union
condemned the actions held in Baku against Akram Aylisli and appealed
to the Azerbaijani authorities to fulfill their obligations protecting
the writer.
"Stone dreams" was translated into Armenian as well.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress