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An English Translation of a Black-Listed Writer in Turkmenistan to be Published by Glagoslav

London, United Kingdom, November 03, 2018 –(PR.com)– Summary:

Moscow, during the collapse of the Soviet system: In a hospital, young people awaiting heart operations and possible death, live just for today with mischief-making and even love affairs, under the stringent gaze of the old matron, Baba Nastya. Here one of the patients, a young Turkmen, meets a Greek Comsomol boy, a Russian Stalinist with a “robotic” heart, and the lovely but tragic Mary. To whom does the future belong � to the soulless robots or the poetical souls?

About the author:

Ak Welsapar was born in 1956 in the former Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan. He received his Master’s degree in Journalism from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1979. In 1987, Ak Welsapar became a member of the Soviet Writers’ Association and received his second Master’s degree in Literary Theory from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in 1989.

In 1993, after spending a year under house arrest, he was excluded from the Writers’ Association following the publication of some investigative articles about colossal ecological problems in Central Asia, mostly caused by the overuse of pesticides needed for cotton production. The consequences of this were terrible and even resulted in the Aral Sea drying up.

The regime in Turkmenistan declared Ak Welsapar a “public enemy,” and the persecution that he faced began again, with redoubled force. There was a ban on publishing works written by him, whilst his published books were confiscated from bookstores and libraries, to be burnt. To avoid unjust imprisonment and the persecution of his family, Ak Welsapar eventually left Turkmenistan in 1993. He and his family have now been residents of Sweden since 1994, where he is a member of the Swedish Writers’ Association. He has also been an honorary member of the International PEN-Club since 1993. Ak Welsapar writes in Russian, Turkmen and Swedish.

Ak Welsapar is still a proscribed writer in Turkmenistan and his name has been in the list of black-listed writers since 1990.

Review copies are available upon request.

Title: The Revenge of the Foxes
Author: Ak Welsapar
Translator: Richard Govett
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Language: English
ISBN: 9781912894116 (HB), 9781912894109 (PB)
Extent: 122 pages
Price: € 19.99 (PB), € 23.99 (HB), €9.95 (e-book)
Format: paperback, hardback, e-book

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