Azerbaijan

Nizami Ganjavi (1141) Layla and Majnun / Mirza Fatali Akhundov / Mirza Fatali Akhundzade /Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh (1812) Kurban Said (1900!?) is the pseudonym of the author of Ali and Nino, a novel originally published in 1937 a romance between a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku in the years 1914–1920.

 Mir Jalal Pashayev (1908) Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff / Banine (1905-1992) was a French writer of Azerbaijani. Days in the Caucasus / Mir Jalal Pashayev (1908) Akram Najaf oglu Naibov (1937) stone dreams The novel tells the story of the Azerbaijani actor Saday Sadykhly and his efforts to protect his Armenian neighbors during the Sumgait and Baku Pogroms in the closing years of the Soviet Union. The novel begins as the severely beaten Sadykhly is being transported to the hospital: while trying to protect his Armenian neighbor he was also assaulted by the yeraz [Azeri refugees from Armenia] on the streets of Baku, who mistook him too for an Armenian. 

Anar Rasul oghlu Rzayev (1938) "Longing for the Holiday" (Bayram Həsrətində), "The Rain Stopped" (Yağış Kəsdi), "White Port" (Ağ Liman), "A Person's Person" (Adamın Adamı), "The Sixth Floor of the Five-Storey Building" (Beşmərtəbəli Evin Altıncı Mərtəbəsi) later used for the movie Tahmina, "Opportunity" (Macal), "I've Come to You" (Sizi Deyib Gəlmişəm), "Without You" (Sizsiz), "Summer Days of the City" (Şəhərin Yay Günləri), "Hotel Room" (Otel Otağı), and "Me, You, Him and the Telephone" (Mən, Sən, O və Telefon). Rustam Ibrahimbekov (1939) book: Solar Plexus: A Baku Saga In Four Parts  Olga Grjasnowa (1984): All Russians love birch trees ...

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