A new translation of Kurban Said's ageless love story Ali and Nino has just been published in Albanian, according to the latest news received by Betty Blair, Editor of Azerbaijan International Magazine, in Los Angeles.
Ali and Nino is now published in 33 languages: Albanian, Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Catalan, Cantonese (Chinese), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Braille, Talking Books for Blind and Dyslexic, and a Large Print Edition), Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish (also Swedish Talking Books for the Blind), Turkish, and Urdu.
The Albanian translation was made from English by Guri Shyti, edited by Loredan Bubani, and published by OMCA-1 (Luan Pengili) in Tirana, Albania. The release date was 2009.
"It's the lyrical and sophisticated design that makes the cover of the Albanian edition such an inspiration," says Betty Khanim. The art work was created by Elda Gjikondi, a young graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana.
"This is one of the most delightful covers, I've seen," said Betty Khanim, who has been collecting the series for the past five years and now has nearly 100 editions. "The Albanian cover captures the delight and wonderment of Ali's love for Nino. So often it seems that the artists have not read the book and, thus, just perpetrate their stereotypes about the Orient and Islam.
"Elda must be one of the youngest artists whose cover has ever been published for Ali and Nino. She's so young and yet she got so many things right! Elda's art emphasizes the relevance and universality of the story in the couple's desire to overcome barriers imposed upon them via religion, nationality, and gender," said Betty Khanim.
Azerbaijan International Magazine will soon be publishing their own research related to the complex issue of the novel's authorship, which they have carried out during the past five years studying documents in nine languages-Azeri, Russian, English, German, French, Italian, Turkish, Georgian and Swedish.
In addition, Betty Khanim found enormous resources in journals of the 1930s (especially German and English) archived in the library of University of California, Los Angeles, which houses one of the largest book collections in the United States.
The research will be published in two separate editions of Azerbaijan International-English and Azeri-300 pages each with many rare photos.
Visit AZER.com, click ALI and NINO to see the covers all 33 languages and nearly 100 editions.
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