Azerbaijan International

Autumn 2000 (8.3)
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New Books
Dada Gorgud

As part of the Library of "Kitabi-Dada Gorgud," the President's office has published a series of books in commemoration of the 1,300th Jubilee of Dada Gorgud. The project was put together by the Azerbaijan State Commission for the 1300th jubilee of the saga "Kitabi-Dada Gorgud," Azerbaijan's ministries of Culture and Education, the Academy of Sciences, the Writers' Union and TURKSOY - Turkic Culture and Arts JV.

The first volume, "Kitabi-Dada Gorgud," features articles about the Dresden and Vatican manuscripts of Dada Gorgud, as well as the actual text in these two versions. Other books in the series include "The World of Dada Gorgud," written by Anar, Head of the Writer's Union, as well as "The Book of my Grandfather Gorgud," (Kniga Moyego Deda Korkuta) by B. B. Bartold.

"Kitabi-Dada Gorgud" (Baku House of New Publications, Baku, 1999, 704 pages).

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