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â€œLev Nissenbaum, Asad Bey, Gurban Said: Who is an author of â€œAli and Ninoâ€ exhibition opened in Baku

30 October 2009 13:15 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ulkar Gasimova â€“ APA. Akhundov National Library of Azerbaijan and Germanyâ€™s embassy in Baku organized a literature exhibition â€œLev Nissenbaum, Asad Bey, Gurban Said: Who is an author of â€œAli and Ninoâ€. According to APA, director of the National Library Karim Tahirov talked about â€œAli and Ninoâ€, the novel by Mahammad Asad Bey, one of the representatives of Azerbaijani immigrant literature. Then German ambassador Per Stanchina addressed the ceremony. He said â€œAli and Ninoâ€ was published in German language for the first time in Vienna in 1937 by E.P. Tal Verlag and for long time it was presented as a novel written by Austrian baroness Elfrida von Ehrenfels Bodmershot and then American orientalist Tom Reis said that he found weighty facts that the novel was written by Azerbaijanâ€™s Jewish writer Lev Nissenbaum.

Professor Hasan Guliyev said â€œAli and Ninoâ€ accepted by many people as a love story, but it covered historic events such as Russian revolution, establishing of independent and democratic Azerbaijan Republic, Red Armyâ€™s invasion in Baku and other periods.

Chairman of German-Azerbaijan Friendship Society Chingiz Abdullayev called it readable book and won large group of readers and was translated to 27 languages.

More than 70 photos, archive materials describing Gurban Saidâ€™s life and creative work were exhibited at the National library. The photos were collected by Tom Reis.

Following the opening ceremony, German writer-scientist Jasmine Boeling gave a lecture about Gurban Said.