Modern Azerbaijani Women's Prose

by Vagif Sultanly, Iraj Ismaely

This anthology presented to reader consists of the artistic prose of the last thirty years. As this period covers the collapse of the Soviet Union and Azerbaijan's independence, the literature reflects the influence of these momentous changes of that period. This book contains the works of writers representing a wide literary generation to include the likes of Aziza Jafarzade, Sara Oghuz, Manzar Nigarli, Afag Masud, Nushaba Mammadli, Mehriban Vazir, Gunel Anargizi, Zumrud Yaghmur, Nazila Isgandarova, Aygun Hasanoghlu, Eluja Atali, Khumar Alakbarli, Shalala Abil and others. It consists of the best examples of Azerbaijani women's prose created during this period . Azerbaijani female writers' works have certain artistic licenses from the point of view of content and style. These writers' works contain various topics, starting from the social and political problems up to moral, ethical and family issues. Besides, the written works are based upon various creative styles. The stories selected in the anthology were based on their relevance to the world readers' interest and taste. Thus, there are epic-analytic, lyrical psychological and conditional-metaphorical works among these stories. All of these aspects express the wide variety of genre, style, and topic that represents the female writers' artistic research.

698 pages, Hardcover

First published February 7, 2014

About the author

Vagif Sultanli was born in 1958.
He graduated the philology department of Baku State University in 1976-1981.

Currently he is the professor of the Modern Azerbaijani Literature chair of the Baku State University.

He worked as a journalist in the literary programs of Azerbaijani offices of “Liberty and Free Europe” radio of USA in 1995-1998.
He was the chief editor of “Khudaferin” journal (1995-1996) published in Poland and “Araz” journal (1996-1997) published in Sweden.

At the moment he is the editor-in-chief of the “Philologial researches” compilation (since 1996) and “World Azerbaijanis” journal (since 2002) which is published in USA.
He has published more than 20 books of novels, short stories, literary criticism and essays.

Some books:

Slave bazaar (short stories)
Death dream (novel)
Desert war (novel)
The Human sea (novel)
The valley of nothingness (short stories)
Azerbaijan emigration literature (literary criticism)
Literary illustrations (essays)
The horizons of freedom (essays)

Reviews

[Kate Throp · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have tried so hard - there are some great stories in here - but the English translation is just too badly done to follow them with any ease and I am sure the sense of many of them is being lost. Will dip into it now and again I am sure and I am certainly not sorry I bought it. Only got a third of the way through.