IN THE PROTEST LETTER TO ALIYEV "ARMIN T. WEGNER" COMPANY DEMANDS TO STOP HARASSMENT AGAINST AILISLI
21:30, 18 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 18, ARMENPRESS: Responding to the call of Armenian
Central Council of German on supporting Azerbaijani writer Akram
Ailisli, "Armin T. Wegner" company has issued a protest and defence
letter to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, German Foreign Minister
Guido Westerwelle and press services of "PEN" international writers'
club, international human rights company and other German and
international press.
As reports Armenpress, Chairman of "Armin T. Wegner" company Ulrich
Klan urged to stop harassments against Ailisli. In the letter he
underlined that people's writer, who spoke about Armenians survived
from the Azerbaijanis, was being persecuted.
Stone Dreams is a novella about Azerbaijani abuses and violations
against Armenians during the Independence war of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Stone Dreams, first written in 2007 but not published for five
years, tells the story of two Azerbaijani men who tried to protect
their Armenian neighbors from ethnic violence, and also refers to
the persecution of Armenians in Karabakh. The book has not yet been
published in Azerbaijan, but a Russian translation was published in
late 2012 in the Russian literary journal Druzhba Narodov (Fraternity
of peoples). Ailisli, aged 75, is a highly regarded writer, poet,
and script writer who has won numerous awards in the Soviet and
post-Soviet eras, including, Azerbaijan's most prestigious literary
prize, the Independence Award, in 2002.
21:30, 18 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 18, ARMENPRESS: Responding to the call of Armenian
Central Council of German on supporting Azerbaijani writer Akram
Ailisli, "Armin T. Wegner" company has issued a protest and defence
letter to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, German Foreign Minister
Guido Westerwelle and press services of "PEN" international writers'
club, international human rights company and other German and
international press.
As reports Armenpress, Chairman of "Armin T. Wegner" company Ulrich
Klan urged to stop harassments against Ailisli. In the letter he
underlined that people's writer, who spoke about Armenians survived
from the Azerbaijanis, was being persecuted.
Stone Dreams is a novella about Azerbaijani abuses and violations
against Armenians during the Independence war of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Stone Dreams, first written in 2007 but not published for five
years, tells the story of two Azerbaijani men who tried to protect
their Armenian neighbors from ethnic violence, and also refers to
the persecution of Armenians in Karabakh. The book has not yet been
published in Azerbaijan, but a Russian translation was published in
late 2012 in the Russian literary journal Druzhba Narodov (Fraternity
of peoples). Ailisli, aged 75, is a highly regarded writer, poet,
and script writer who has won numerous awards in the Soviet and
post-Soviet eras, including, Azerbaijan's most prestigious literary
prize, the Independence Award, in 2002.