AzSTC Launches Book Browse
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new pilot initiative for the Azerbaijan State Translation Centre (AzSTC).
The project called Book Browse (Kitabla görüş) is a book event designed to cultivate in the public a love of reading and raise awareness about the business of writing both locally and globally. As part of this initiative to reach out to cities and districts across Azerbaijan, the first Book Browse event has been held at the Sheki Branch of Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University.
Addressing the event, Azerbaijani writer and translator Etimad Bashkechid, head of AzSTC’s Science, Education & Culture Office, described the project objectives, outlining our books published in Azerbaijan, as well as overseas.
AzSTC Board Chair’s adviser Ilgar Rasul and Information Department’s chief editor Qan Turaly discussed the role of popular literature in the progress of society, and its consequence for and impact on human thinking.
The floor was then given to the young poets - Rabiga Nazimgizi, Jalil Javanshir, Shahriyar del-Gerani, Agshin Evren and Agha Ramazanly - who recited their own original poems.
Vagif Aslanly, a professor at the Sheki Branch, and Yusif Shukurlu, director of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Sheki Regional Center, focused on AzSTC’s work and its awareness-raising initiatives.
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“Schreiber Netzwerk”, the popular German literature portal, has posted in German the short story “The Cold Stone” by Yusif Samadoglu, the People’s Writer of Azerbaijan, as part of the AzSTC project “Azerbaijan Literature in an International Virtual World.”
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Orkhan Fikretoglu’s creativity on Spanish Literary Portal
“Alquibla”, the popular Spanish literature portal, has posted in Spanish the short story “The Tale of the Last Valiant” by Orkhan Fikretoglu, a popular Azerbaijani writer, as part of the AzSTC project “Azerbaijan Literature in an International Virtual World.”
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The Book “Heydar Aliyev and Georgia” Presented in Tbilisi
The presentation ceremony of the book “Heydar Aliyev and Georgia” dedicated to the “Year of Heydar Aliyev” and published by the leading Georgian “Merani” Publishing House has been held in Tbilisi. In her opening speech at the event launched in the large assembly hall of the Parliament of Georgia Makvala Gonashvili, the Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Georgia and winner of the Rustaveli State Prize, spoke about Heydar Aliyev’s decisive role in the political, economic and social life of Georgia in the difficult periods of its history and energy projects thanks to which fundamental changes in the field of policy and economic realities in the region had been achieved. Then, Afag Masud, the Board Chair of the Azerbaijan State Translation Centre and People’s Writer took the floor.
