1. Akram Najaf oglu Naibov, better known by his pen name Akram Aylisli, is an Azerbaijani writer, playwright, novelist and former member of parliament.
13 Facts About Akram Aylisli
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Akram Aylisli's works have been translated from his native Azerbaijani into a number of languages in the former Soviet Union and around the world.
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Akram Aylisli's books were burnt by Azerbaijani intelligentsia and compatriots in his hometown, his son and wife were fired from their jobs and a "bounty" of some $13,000 was promised for cutting the writer's ear off.
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Akram Aylisli was born in the village of Aylis in 1937 in the Ordubad region of the Nakhchivan, part of Soviet Azerbaijan, near the borders of Armenia and Iran.
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Akram Aylisli received his graduate education at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, the elite school of creative writing for Soviet writers.
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Akram Aylisli translated into Azeri the books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Heinrich Boll, Ivan Turgenev, Konstantin Paustovsky, Vladimir Korolenko, Anton Chekhov, Vasily Shukshin, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Salman Rushdie.
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Akram Aylisli served for one term, which ended on November 7,2010.
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Akram Aylisli's works published in the Soviet Union did not conform to socialist realism, than some other writers of the Azerbaijan SSR at that time, and he spoke negatively about the Soviet era for a while in the 1990s.
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In late 2012 and early 2013, Akram Aylisli found himself embroiled in controversy when his novella, Das yuxular, was published in a Russian-language journal called Druzhba Narodov.
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Akram Aylisli added that Aylisli represents Armenian youth who killed thousands of Azerbaijanis, and took control over Azerbaijani lands and committed the massacre in Khojaly, but that he represents Azerbaijanis as murderers and weak personalities.
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Akram Aylisli's mind is very fragile; he's on the brink of insanity.
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Leyla Yunus, a leading Azerbaijani human right activist, claimed that "Only Akram Aylisli defends the honor and the dignity of our nation after the story of Ramil Safarov".
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Akram Aylisli's lone resistance, his defiance, his willingness to sacrifice all for the sake of truth, is an encouragement to each of us to be brave.