CULTURE
AZERBAIJANI BOOK DAY IN MOSCOW HELD
The Azerbaijan Republic was represented at this event for the first time. The exposition presented books came out for the recent years – Azerbaijan and world belles-lettres in Latin script, textbooks of the Baku Slavonic University.
The presentation was followed by the meetings with famous Azerbaijani writers Alla Akhundova and Chingiz Abdullayev.
Writer, poet and translator, Alla Akhundova is known in Russia for her translation of Turkic epos “Kitabi-Dede Gorgud”, verses by Azerbaijani writers Teymur Elchin, Ilyas Tapdig.
Master of detective genre, People’s Writer Chingiz Abdullayev responded to visitors’ questions concerning his knowledge of Russian literature, state of Russian language in Azerbaijan.
The festival was rounded off with publication of the newspaper “Bibliobraz” and book “Meeting”.