COMMONTALK WEEKLY 双语周刊 04 LIVING ABROAD 异域来风 2019年11月13日 星期三 November 13, 2019 Wednesday Quote英文名句 E Marketing is a contest for peo- n g ple's attention. l i s -- Seth Godin, marketer h C 行销是夺得别人注意力的比赛。 l a ——斯 高汀 (行销大师) s · s ▲ 小课堂 Vocabulary生词库 plaque profound [plæk] [prəˈfaʊnd] 牌匾 意义深远的 Upcoming Events 活动预告 Titanic Dance, tap dance Time: 8:00 p.m., November 17 Place: Xiamen Tan Kan Kee Theater Visiting the Abdulla Shaig House 爱尔兰全新踢踏舞剧《泰坦尼克》 Museum in Azerbaijan 地点时间 s I passed a historical building en- hall is now home to books written by ： ： 作者有一年去阿塞拜疆的首都 厦门嘉庚剧院 shrined in a quiet alley in Baku, Mr. Shaig translated into different lan- 11月 Athe capital city of Azerbaijan, a 巴库参加马拉松，在城市观光的时 guages and published around the world. plaque on the building's wall caught my 候，被一座建筑外墙上的牌子所吸 Fluent in Arabic, Azerbaijani, Persian 17日晚上八点 eye. The plaque noted that famed Azer- 引。原来这是阿塞拜疆一位知名作 and Russian, the author also translated baijani writer Abdulla Shaig lived and 家曾经的住所，现在成为一座博物 into Azerbaijani works of literature by wrote between 1914 and 1957 in the 馆，由作家的后人经营。作者在博物 everyone from William Shakespeare to building, which now houses a museum 馆里，了解了作家的生平和为这个 Alexander Pushkin to Nizami Ganjavi. in his honor. 国家做出的贡献…… Another room covers Mr. Shaig's Sponsored by Azerbaijan's Minis- life as a teacher and as a writer of chil- try of Culture and Tourism, the museum dren's literature. Indeed, he devoted charges no fee to visitors. The museum much of his life to the cause of national is operated by Mr. Shaig's granddaugh- education. Mr. Shaig worked as an edu- Silk Road Band Music Concert ter and by the museum's director, Ulker cator in Baku for more than 30 years. time: 7:30 p.m., November 24 Talibzade. Following the establishment of the Place: Banlam Grand Theater As a literature enthusiast, I was in- Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 丝路乐队《蓝色旋律》 trigued and immediately decided to take 1918, he became the first person to open 时间：11 月 24 日晚上七点半 a tour. Museum guide Elminaz an Azerbaijani-language secondary 地点：闽南大戏院 Memmedli welcomed me with open school. He also wrote numerous chil- arms. He noted that the building was dren's textbooks. Photos of Mr. Shaig Celebration of Life, magic constructed in 1905 on Upper Mountain with his colleagues and pupils testify to Street, which has since been renamed A. a lifelong commitment to education. show Shaig Street in honor of the folklorist, His love for children can also be Time: 7:30 p.m., December 6 playwright and children's author. seen in the numerous folktales he wrote Place: Banlam Grand Theater Kamal Talibzade, the author's elder over the years. His first collection of 新加坡大型魔幻舞台剧《神奇生日 son, established the museum in 1991 folktales was published in 1906. His 会》 and it opened to the public in 2001. The imaginative stories are seen as national 时间：12 月 6 日晚上七点半 house includes a collection of more than treasures by Azerbaijanis today. 地点：闽南大戏院 4,000 exhibits spread across the muse- largely Azerbaijani-inhabited area of Further collections of Mr. Shaig's um's four rooms. Featured items include Marneuli. Given the birth name of Ab- poems, stories and literary reviews are displays of the writer's books, manu- dulla Mustafa oghlu Talibzade, the au- on display in his former study. He cov- Lei Yu piano concert scripts and photos as well as everyday thor took Shaig as his pen name, which ered a wide range of social and political Time: 7:30 p.m., December 8 articles such as pens, glasses and the au- is derived from the Arabic and Persian issues under the Russian empire during Place: Xiamen Tan Kan Kee Theater thor's passport. word for light. the early 20th century. His work contin- 德国博兰斯勒未来钢琴家雷羽独 The museum's environs are pre- Mr. Shaig attended school in Tiflis ued to resonate in Soviet times. 奏音乐会全国巡演厦门站 served in much the way they existed and later studied languages and litera- A new collection of Mr. Shaig's when Mr. Shaig lived at the residence. ture in Khorasan, Iran, after moving work on display is devoted to his son, The kitchen's copperware and tableware there with his mother. In 1901, he Kamal Talibzade, who became a promi- as well as an antique radio and mirror moved to Baku and lived in a small nent scientist and a founder of Azerbai- 地点时间 testify to the writer's life and times with apartment with his mother and elder jani literary criticism theory. The muse- his family. brother. After marrying, he moved to the um also includes video recordings of ： ： apartment that became his museum. 厦门嘉庚剧院 The home was a frequent meeting Mr. Shaig teaching Azerbaijani children. 12月 site for noted literary figures of the era, In the living room hangs a portrait Today, the author's works are still including playwrights Najaf bey Vazirov of his brother Yusif Ziya Talibzade, an widely read by Azerbaijanis and world- 8日晚上七点半 and Suleyman Sani Akhundov. Noted Azerbaijani soldier and statesman, as wide. His spirit remains a source of in- poet Samed Vurghun was a relative of well as an oil painting of his wife spiration. Indeed, Mr. Shaig remains a Mr. Shaig and a frequent visitor. Shahzade Khanim by the painter A. Ja- vital part of Azerbaijani society through Widely hailed as an author and cul- farov. The room also includes a carpet his profound impact on the country's lit- tural figure, Mr. Shaig in 1881 was born depicting Mr. Shaig and his son Kamal. erature and culture. in the city of Tiflis to a family from the The apartment's former entrance By Wu Hui 印刷单位：厦门报业传媒集团有限公司 印刷经营许可证号：闽2017印证字354400002号.