The chairman of the Hungarian-Azerbaijan Friendship Society was at the Institute of Folklore

On the 13 th of June, 2016 the chairman of the Hungarian-Azerbaijan Friendship Society Svetlana Abdullayeva was as a guest at the Institute of Folklore . The director of the Institute of Folklore, the correspondent member of the ANAS Mukhtar Imanov, the deputy of the Institute of Literature named after Nizami Prof. Maharram Gasimli, the chairman of the department “Classical folklore” Ph.D. the assistant of the professor Rza Khalilov, Ph.D., the assistant of the professor Afag Ramazanova, the chairman of the section of the Foreign relations Ali Shamil took part at the meeting. At the beginning of the meeting Mukhtar Imanov gave information about the problems about Azerbaijan , its culture and propaganda of folklore carried out in abroad by the guest – Svetlana Abdullayeva.

Living nearly fifty years in Hungary Svetlana Abdullayeva has translated 101 Azerbaijan tales into the Hungarian language and during 2013-2014 that book with three volumes was published in the capital of the Hungary . At the meeting Svetlana Abdullayeva gave information about the opinion exchange of the that book, the principles of choosing tales, the difficulties met during the translation and other problems.

Muktar Imanov also told that in some days the presentation of that book would be done by ANAS Institute of Folklore together with the Institute of Literature named after Nizami.
At the end of the meeting the last publications of the Institute were presented to the guests by the director of the Institute of Folklore Mukhtar Imanov .
