The experts have completed the evaluation of prose and poetry translations into Azerbaijan submitted for the Literary Translation Award “Bay Leaf” founded by the Azerbaijan Translation Centre under the Cabinet of Ministers (AzTC). By the experts’ evaluation, 20 prose translations and 5 poetry translations of contestants reached the second stage to be submitted to the Awards Commission. The experts and language specialists had to downgrade most of the poetry examples translated into Azerbaijani, and selected only five examples for the next stage, yet 20 ones were expected to reach the second stage.  

Below are the prose and poetry translations selected for the second stage.

Prose translations

1) Cavid Zeynallı – Mulberry by Cemil Kavukçu

2) Ziyad Quluzadə – Railway Storytellers by Oğuz Atay

3) Şafiqa Şefa – The Trout Playing Through Small Rivers by Konstantin Paustovsky

4) İlaha Ucaruh – Our Tommy by Kristiina Louhi

5) Zekafet Akhundova– Patriotism by Yukio Mishima

6) Gülnar Hüseyn – Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

7) İlqar Qarayev – Mr. Know All by Somerset Maugham  

8) Elnara Zeynalova – The Visitors by Yusuf İdris  

9) Aqşin Aliyev – My Aunt’s Priced Knife by Mo Yan

10) Farhad Yalquzaq – White Curse by Vladimir Sanin

11) Akif Ali – The Candle Burned by Mike Gelprin

12) Şerif Ağayar – Asphalt Road by Sabahattin Ali  

13) Tevekgül Zeynallı – The Strength of God by Sherwood Anderson

14) Kifayet Haqverdiyeva – The Panther by Leonid Andreyev  

15) Aygün Aziz – The Door of Opportunity by Somerset Maugham

16) Fazil Güney – The rooster by Ghada al-Samman  

17) Mahir Hamidov – The Cry of the Graves by Gibran Khalil Gibran

18) Memmed Memmedli – The Passionate Night by Juan Rulfo

19) Xanım Aydın – Tolstoi and Russia by Herman Hesse

20) Vüsala Mukhtarova – Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Poetry translations

1. Akif Ahmedgil – Selections from The Song of Igor's Campaign

2. Qoca Xalid– The Flower by Aleksandr Pushkin

3. Alizade Nuri – Poems by Alexandr Blok

4. İbrahim İlyaslı – Poems by Tatyana Uvarova

5. Gülbala Dadaş – Green Voice by Dursun Ali