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2010-02-22

Publishing House Gün now launch our new website.

NEW BOOKS:
Three new books have been produced and published in collaboration with Västerledsskolan in Enköping, Sweden.

Contact us

Publishing House Gün
Fannagatan 36 B
749 41 Enköping
Sweden

Phone and fax number:
+46 171 365 57

introduction

Welcome to the new website of our Publishing House Gün. Our name means "sun" in turkmen.

Publishing House Gün was started in 2006 by a family that was persecuted and silenced in their home country Turkmenistan where anyone using their freedom of speech was the enemy of the state.

"Turkmenistan, where anyone using their freedom of speech was the enemy of the state."

A family of a writer and journalist, a teacher and three children they came to Sweden as political refugees and years later founded the Publishing Gün to publish books unfolding the freedom of speech.

New books

 

 

 

 

Varför grodan kväker

Titelsagan Varför grodan kväker handlar om en groda som uppträder för andra djur med sin vackra röst. En dag hittar han en diamant och är bekymmerslös ända tills han blir erbjuden i hjord hästar mot diamanten. Boken innehåller många spännande lästimmar om exotiska djur och fåglar i ett exotiskt land. Men i deras beteende kan man oftast ana mänskliga karaktärer som goda och onda. Kanske är det därför som sagorna är spännande och lärorika på samma gång.

 

 

Evighetens källa

Bland djinner och talande djur, i djupa skogar och bland höga berg lever människorna i denna bok sina liv. De utsätts för svåra prövningar och förlorar inte sällan en maktkamp. Men de ger ändå inte upp. Med hjälp av sin envishet och klokhet övervinner de till slut även de mest omöjliga hindren. ”Evighetens källa” är den andra volymen med turkmeniska folksagor som har getts ut på svenska. Syskonen Anna och Michael Welsapar har översatt de 12 sagorna i denna bok.

 

Akpamyk

Akpamyk - Folksagor från Turkmenistan, har både fått      litteraturstöd från Statens Kulturråd och Kulturstipendium från Enköpings kommun.

En av sagorna i boken, ”Den lilla sandklumpen” har dessutom blivit uppläst för Astrid Lindgren och fått hennes välgångsönskningar. Folksagorna i boken har översatts av syskonen Guncha och Erik Welsapar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Milli oýun

Tirkish Jumageldi is a laureate of the National Turkmen prize named Makhtumkuli. The writer of the popular books: ”Janserek”, ”Daşrabat”, ”Gara ýyldyrym” and ”Ýanan gelinler” is a famous prosaist and his latest book is a novelty in literature.

The main characters Zynat, Päkize, Garyp and several others live in a merciless dictatorship. They have different life experi­ences, but their quests share some similarities. Due to this, a vicious and merciless competition rises between them.

The novel is with its strong revealings of the dark sides of the totalitarian society approaches a documentary book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ones Vanishing In The Daylight

If colonial dependency means national slavery and darkness, then the national independence should be - an era of the citizens freedom and light periods. Therefore Turkmen people were expecting: free electoral system, freedom of speech, and all other civil rights and thorough democratic changes, when the Soviet empire collapsed, and Turkmenistan declared its independence on 27th of October 1991. However, all this remained only a dream, and life itself transformed for millions of people into a real nightmare. Why did not the good expectations work out? Why did human rights, freedom of expression and press freedom deteriorated dramatically in the independent Turkmenistan?

How was it possible that during the independence period of time an extremely cruel bashistisk regime established itself in Turkmenistan? From where did the poisonous roots of the regime come? What role played Turkmen intelligence in this case, especially the creative part of the intelligent community, and the real representatives of intelligent society to the ruthless dictatorship was established in the former Soviet Republic?

In the book THE ONES VANISHING IN THE DAYLIGHT, based on actual materials, seeks to answer these questions.