The Azerbaijan State Translation Centre (AzSTC) is pleased to announce that it has published the book Testament by André Maurois, a notable French author.

This volume of thirteen short stories contains ‘Biography’, “Love in Exile”, ‘The Curse of Gold’, ‘Myrrhine’, ‘Wednesday's Violets’, ‘Testament’, and ‘The Fault of M. Balzac’, among others. Also included is the novella ‘To an Unknown Lady’.

André Morua is best known for biographies that maintain the narrative interest of short stories and novels with a tender literary sense, a deep psychology and classical thinking. Among his many biographies, praised for their penetrating analyses of character, are works on Shelly, Byron, Balzac, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Turgenev, Checkhov and other worldwide famous authors.   

The translator of the collection is Mahir Garayev. The editor is Rabiga Nazimgizi.