Saturday, October 24, 2009

Interview of an Azerbaijani writer and MP

Huseynbala Miralamov is my MP - that is MP of an electoral district where I live. Besides, people claim that his vocation is literature. Frankly, he has written many books and as I haven't read any, I am not the one to judge how true this claim is. However, recently, he has given an interview to an Azerbaijani news web site and there talked about his writer career. The title says: "Post-modernism is a jugglery."

Below are excerpts in my translation.
Disclaimer: I have voted for another candidate, not him.
Huseynbala muallim, if one day your works were collected from everywhere and burned, would the Azerbaijani literature lose anything?

My writings contain Azerbaijani moral, global human psychology, Karabakh, love of motherland. Plus, I was the first person who brought image of Heydar Aliyev into literature. I have covered his life and activities, his services to the state in about 10 works of mine. Don't know about literature, but that would be a tragedy for me.

Do you read your works after they are published?

I have read all! And I read again and again "Heydar Aliyev" from the series of "Life of Prominent People", as well as "Bridal gown."

[Journalist talks about a Polish translator of Solzhenitsyn and asks:] Do you have such a work that can be given to her and translated by her?

First of all, my works were published in six languages. My book "Heydar Aliyev" from the series "Life of Prominent People" has been published again in Moscow. And recently, I have received a letter from our embassy in Turkmenistan - they ask permission to translate that work into Turkmen language.

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What are your plans?

I want to write a novel about Heydar Aliyev. It seems what we have written is not enough. I think the creation of a literary image of a perfect personality will solve all other deficiencies as well.

2 comments:

Nargiz N said...

Seriously you guys, we're going to have to start rationing all the idiocy, I can't take all this in one night.

Ilkin said...

Agree with Nargiz. We should work in shifts :D