Alakbar Aliagha oglu Aliyev, commonly known as Alekper Aliyev or Ali Akbar (Azerbaijani: Aləkpər Əliyev, Əli Əkbər; born 28 January 1978), is an Azerbaijani journalist, translator and writer based in Switzerland.
Aliyev attended a public school in Baku but after the eighth grade, he continued his secondary education in Turkey.
[1] He continued to work in Turkey as the head of the communications department and translator at the Kaknus publishing house.
In 2009, Alekper Aliyev published a book entitled Artush and Zaur, a homosexual love tale between an Armenian and an Azerbaijani who felt apart after the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The book became highly controversial and was banned in bookstores in both Armenia and Azerbaijan[3] which for the past two decades have been bitter rivals due to the ongoing ethnic conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and where homosexuality is still highly stigmatised.