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PEN INTERNATIONAL FEARS FOR AKRAM AYLISLI'S SECURITY
13:04, 13 February, 2013
YEREVAN, February 13, ARMENPRESS: PEN International calls on the
Azerbaijani authorities to guarantee Aylisli's safety and that
of his family, and to investigate and prosecute any person who
has threatened him. As reports Armenpress, International PEN, the
worldwide association of writers, referred to treatments against
Azerbaijani author expressing its fears for Akram Aylisli's security.
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 Druahba Naradov (Friendship
of the Peoples). Aylisli, 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.
Founded in 1921 PEN International aims to promote friendship and
intellectual cooperation among writers everywhere; to emphasize the
role of literature in the development of mutual understanding and
world culture.
13:04, 13 February, 2013
YEREVAN, February 13, ARMENPRESS: PEN International calls on the
Azerbaijani authorities to guarantee Aylisli's safety and that
of his family, and to investigate and prosecute any person who
has threatened him. As reports Armenpress, International PEN, the
worldwide association of writers, referred to treatments against
Azerbaijani author expressing its fears for Akram Aylisli's security.
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 Druahba Naradov (Friendship
of the Peoples). Aylisli, 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.
Founded in 1921 PEN International aims to promote friendship and
intellectual cooperation among writers everywhere; to emphasize the
role of literature in the development of mutual understanding and
world culture.