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Kurban Said

Died in 1942

Kurban Said is the pseudonym under which this novel appeared, and the identity of its author remains disputed. Tom Reiss attributes it to Lev Nussimbaum, known as Essad Bey, born in 1905, in Baku according to most accounts, in Kiev according to the archives of that city; a Jew who converted to Islam, he left Baku in 1920, lived in Berlin from 1921 to 1933, then moved to Italy and died in Positano on 27 August 1942. Baroness Elfriede Ehrenfels signed the publishing contract, and the journal Azerbaijan International defends the case of Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli, an Azerbaijani writer who died in the gulag during the war.

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