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Azerbaijan: Ethnic Novelist

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Eastern & Central Europe, Azerbaijan, Russia, Arts & Culture, Ethnicity & Race, Human Rights, Literature

Window on Eurasia says that a book by ethnic Azerbaijani author Eduard Bagirov is causing a stir as a best seller throughout the Russian Federation [1]. In particular, notes the blog, Bagirov's books generally examines the “extraordinary difficulties Azerbaijanis and other non-Russians living in the Russian capital now face in trying to cope with the rising level of xenophobic attitudes among Russians.”