The First Congress of the World Organization of Writers "WOW"
Nigeria, Abuja, 04.04.2024
The idea of creating a World Organization of Writers (WOW) was put forward at the literary forum "Creating the image of the future Man and the man of the Future in literature" within the framework of the Eurasian Literary Festival lifft-2019 in the Republic of Azerbaijan, where writers from 52 countries gathered.
On February 1, 2023, in Cairo, writers from 18 countries of the world developed and signed a memorandum of intent on the creation of a World Organization of Writers.
On December 25 of the same year, the World Organization of Writers was officially registered. The founders were the Assembly of the Peoples of Eurasia, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, poet Alexandra Ochirova, Chairman of the Literary Council of ANE, poet Margarita Al
The World Organization of Writers WOW congratulates the writers of the world on WRITER's DAY
"Nowadays, one is a poet, one is a writer who is useful." — Vladimir Mayakovsky
“There is no greater agony than carrying an unspoken story.” — Maya Angelou
“If there is a book you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you should write it.” — Toni Morrison
“There is nothing to write. All you do is sit down at your typewriter and bleed.” — Ernest Hemingway
“You have to write a book that wants to be written. And if the book is too difficult for adults, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle
“Fantasy can hardly be called an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding her.” — Lloyd Alexander
“Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the craftsman. Read it! You'll learn that. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If not, throw it out the window.” — William Faulkner
“The scariest moment is always before the start.” — Stephen King
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WOW President Margarita Al's greeting to African writers at a panel discussion in Nigeria
Colleagues, friends! It is a great honor for me to greet you at this panel discussion and it is a feast of poetry and literature. Please accept my sincere congratulations and wishes to achieve success and a high level of creativity. I hope your books and works will find the way to the hesrts of the readers. So that your words have a great impact on the minds of our contemporaries and so that each of your books carries the idea of peace and solidarity between the people of our small planet Earth. Margarita represents the World Organization of WOW Writers. And very soon we will fly to the most mysterious and attractive continent Africa. and I've already fallen in love with Nigeria, just because people like Wale Okediran live and work and create there. It will be a great pleasure for us to accept your creative works for the competition. There's not much time left, until March the 1st, but I'm sure you'll make it. WOW has an anthem and it will be played on April 4-6 in Abuja, Nigeria. And there are very important words. We are people of the same planet and poetry unites us.
0 Sincerely, the president of the World Organization of Writers WOW, Margarita Al
Thanks to Olga Medvedko's professional translation, I was able to fully participate in the panel discussion.
Olga Medvedko briefly but in full about the panel discussion in Abuja.
The main issues discussed were:
Should poetry be pleasant and joyful to read, or should it raise acute issues of the world and being, and give food for thought?
Is African literature a part of world literature? How, to what extent? How to do it and promote it? African writers create their own, without looking back at the tastes of the West.
There are two aspects in literature - personal, the theme of personality and political. How do these two themes connect and penetrate each other? They must be connected. African writers should not be excluded from politics.
The relationship between creativity and the market. A real writer should not be led by the market and the conjuncture, but be guided by his ideas and creative ideas.
How many publishers are there in Africa? How to increase the profit from books? How to teach young people to read books?
It is necessary to write in their African languages, to develop national literature. And English is the connecting language for everyone.
You need to learn your own history and the role of the writer is important here. Often there is not even a history textbook in schools, that's where the role and responsibility of the writer is huge.
Congress of the World Organization of Writers "WOW", Abuja, Nigeria
As part of the preparations for the first congress of the World Organization of Writers (WOW), Dr. Wale Okediran, secretary general of the Pan-African Association of Writers, recently paid a courtesy visit to Prince Dotun Oyelade, information commissioner of the State of Oyo, Nigeria.
The photo above shows the Funny couch (on the right) presenting a souvenir dedicated to Prince Oyelade.
The congress organized by various international writers' organizations is scheduled to end in Abuja, Nigeria, from April 4 to 6, 2024.
During the visit, Prince Oyelade, who is also a seasoned journalist and writer, promised the full support of his ministry for the success of the event.
Margarita Al, President of the World Organization of WOW Writers,
held a working meeting with Azerbaijani writers in Baku.
On February 21, the Natavan Club of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan hosted a round table organized by the World Organization of Writers (WOW - World Organization of Writers) together with the Literary Foundation of Azerbaijan on the topic "World Organization of Writers WOW. Integration of Azerbaijani literature into the world's leading literary platforms." The event was attended by representatives of the World Organization of Writers, members of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan, young authors, members of the Literary Council of the ANE, representatives of the ANE, public organizations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as representatives of the media.
The event was moderated by the director of the Azerbaijan Literary Foundation, Varis Yolchuyev. The speaker of the round table is Margarita Al, President of the World Organization of Writers. The event was attended by Deputy Chairman of the SPR, Chairman of the Press Council of Azerbaijan Rashad Majid, Secretary of the Union for International Relations Selim Babullaoglu, Secretary of the SPR Elchin Huseynbeyli.
The speakers welcomed the World Organization of WOW Writers represented by the President of the Union, Margarita Al. It was noted in the speeches that the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan is interested in a decent representation of Azerbaijani literature in the world. The place of Azerbaijani literature at the international level, the work done and the work done were also noted. Special attention was paid to the young writers of Azerbaijan. And it was decided to delegate 2 young writers Mammadov Ulujay and Javanshir Intigam to the First Congress of the World Organization of Writers "WOW", which will be held in Nigeria, Abuja, April 4-6, 2024
Margarita Al, welcomed the participants of the conference in Azerbaijani, Kazakh and Russian, congratulated them on Mother Tongue Day and, as the author and head of the Eurasian Literary Project and Chairman of the Literary Council of the ANE, thanked the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, First Lady of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva, the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan, Varis Elchiev, the Assembly of the Peoples of Eurasia, the Secretary General of the ANE A. Yu. Belyaninova for supporting writers of the world and participating in the 2019 Eurasian Literary Festival, which was held at the highest level with the participation of writers from 52 countries of the world, a festival that became the best festival in Eurasia.
In her report, Margarita Al spoke about the main goals of the World Organization of Writers - to unite the creative efforts of writers of the world in the interests of the future of the humanitarian sphere, ensuring the decisive role of culture, literature and moral values in maintaining stability in the world. A working document, the WOW declaration, was also announced, which will be finalized and adopted at the First Congress of the World Organization of Writers "WOW". The WOW President listened to the wishes and additions of Azerbaijani writers and entered them into the minutes of the meeting.
The Coordinator of the WOW Award, writer Eldar Akhadov, spoke at the conference. He spoke about the competition, which is being held for the first time in the history of literary competitions, in 4 language categories (Russian, English, Arabic, English). On the part of Azerbaijani writers, a proposal was made to add a Turkic language group in the future and to provide maximum participation in the work of this language group.
Azerbaijan is of particular importance to the World Organization of Writers, as it was here that the idea of its creation was born. This initiative was proposed during the IV Eurasian Literary Festival LIFFT in 2019, when poet Margarita Al and writer Olzhas Suleimenov shared with the largest writers of Eurasia the idea of the urgent need to create a large-scale literary organization. In February 2023, at a meeting in Cairo, representatives of 18 countries signed a Memorandum of Intent on the creation of a World Organization of Writers and decided by a majority vote on the location of the WOW headquarters in the Russian Federation. In December 2023, the organization was officially registered. Now the organization unites writers from 69 countries.
On April 4-6, 2024, the first Congress of the World Organization of Writers will be held in Abuja, the capital of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, under the slogan: "We are people of the same planet." During the three working days of the Congress, the first working meeting of the Congress participants in offline and online format, the celebration of the XXV UNESCO World Poetry Day and the innovative business Forum "Eurasia + Africa", the VII World Literary Festival "WOW-LiFFt", as well as the World Cultural and Educational Forum "Modern Problems of the Humanitarian modernization", the idea of which belongs to UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, Co-Chairman of the General Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Eurasia, poet Alexandra Ochirova.
The Pan-African Writers Association "PAWA", headed by Dr. Wale Okediran, Gold Laureate of the VI Open Eurasian Literary Festival of LIftF Festivals, is the host party.
Information support for the Congress events is provided by the Global Cooperation of Media Global Media platform, which has signed a cooperation agreement with WOW, RIA Novosti, as well as a number of leading media outlets in Egypt, India, Arab countries and CIS member countries, among which the main literary information portal of Azerbaijan "Literature and Culture" has joined", winner of the award of the Committee of Culture of Turkic-speaking Countries "The best media of the Turkic world in 2023".
The World Organization of Writers was supported by outstanding writers of the world: the legendary poet from Korea - Ko Eun, the writer of the world from Kazakhstan - Olzhas Suleimenov, the poet of the world and Russia Konstantin Kedrov, the Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Shoinki and other famous poets and writers.
The Nigerian partners of the Congress are working to ensure that the Congress is held at a global level and are ready to ensure the participation of high-ranking government officials, including the President of the country, as well as representatives of ministries of Nigeria, distinguished guests from around the world. Among the announced collective participants of WOW events are the Assembly of the Peoples of Eurasia, the Pan-African Writers Association and other organizations advocating the preservation of traditional values, the formation of a multipolar world order based on mutual respect, trust and beneficial economic cooperation.
The purpose of the visit of the leadership of the World Organization of Writers to Baku was to establish cooperation with Azerbaijani writers, strengthen the role of Azerbaijan in the development of world cultural relations and ensure decent representation of Azerbaijani literature on the world's largest literary platforms.
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"THE WORLD ORGANIZATION OF WOW WRITERS"
Первого февраля 2024 в режимах онлайн и офлайн состоялась конференция, посвящённая подготовке “Первого Всемирного конгресса WOW”, который пройдёт 4-6 апреля 2024 г. в столице Нигерии городе Абуджа.
Телемост Ганна-Абуджа-Москва организовали Пан-Африканская Ассоциация писателей PAWA, Всемирная организация писателей WOW, Ассамблея народов Евразии.
К обсуждению были заявлены мероприятия:
- Официальные встречи.
- Пресс-конференция.
- Первый Конгресс WOW - “Мы люди одной планеты”.
- Открытие VII Всемирного литературного фестиваля WOW-LiffT.
- Культурно-образовательный форум “Современные проблемы гуманитарной модернизации”
- Бизнес – форум “Евразия+Африка”.
- Выставка-перформанс “Книга Поэта и Художника”.
- Празднование XXV Всемирного дня поэзии ЮНЕСКО.
- Закрытие VII Всемирного литературного фестиваля и награждения.
На заседании в режимах онлайн и офлайн присутствовали:
- Президент Всемирной организации писателей (President of the World Organization of Writer/ WOW), поэт Маргарита Аль, Генеральный секретарь PAWA Wale Okediran, Президент Ассоциации нигерийских авторов (ANA) Usman Oladipo Akanbi, Президент Азиатской Ассоциации журналистов - Ashraf Abul-Yazid, поэт, прозаик, журналист, сопредседатель инвестиционной компании Совета по международной экономической деятельности АНЕ, руководитель Евразийской инвестиционной компании Александр Иванов, руководитель Департамента развития международного образования и партнерства Алана Кочиева, писатель, культуролог, лингвист, председатель Гумилёвского общества Ольга Медведко, координатор конкурса премии WOW Эльдар Ахадов, сопредседатель Литературного совета Ассамблеи народов Евразии, главный редактор таджикской газеты «Фурги Фаранг» («Рассвет культуры»), Абдукаххор Косимов, сопредседатель литературного Совета Ассамблеи народов Евразии, лауреат национальной премии «На благо мира» - за доброту в искусстве, редактор журнала, поэт Екатерина Володина, член комитета по развитию агропромышленного комплекса Торгово-промышленной Палаты РФ Владимир Лищук, лауреат премии им. Фазиля Искандера, редактор журнала Владимир Делба, народный писатель Республики Башкортостан, сатирик, поэт, публицист Марсель Салимов, председатель Белорусского литературного союза «Полоцкая ветвь», поэт и редактор журнала Александр Раткевич, лауреат Державинской премии, поэт и прозаик Ольга Левадная, редактор журнала, поэт и путешественница Елена Ользеева, редактор журнала, поэт Лиана Романова, редактор журнала, поэт Наталья Никулина, писатель Оксана Шушарина, писатель-феминист и правозащитница Erelu Bisi Fayemi, сотрудник программы PAWA Reine Fioklou, помощник специалиста программы PAWA Abbas Mohammad.
Приветственным словом и вручением свидетельства о членстве в АНЕ писателю Оксане Шушариной конференцию открыл руководитель департамента по сохранению исторической памяти Ассамблеи народов Евразии Игорь Александрович Шпынов.
Маргарита Аль поздравила всех присутствующих с первой годовщиной даты подписания Меморандума писателей 17 стран мира на Каирском литературном фестивале о совместном намерении создания “Всемирной организации писателей WOW”. Как известно, 25 декабря 2023 года организация была юридически зарегистрирована. Штаб квартира “Всемирной организации WOW” находится в Москве. Госпожа Аль отметила, что особенно важными для дальнейшего функционирования организации WOW станут мероприятия, планируемые к проведению в апреле в Нигерии, в том числе Первый Конгресс WOW. Оргкомитетом совместно с коллегами из Нигерии разработана программа мероприятий, определены их модераторы и координаторы.
Генеральный секретарь Пан-Африканской Ассоциации Писателей Wale Okediran представил присутствующим своих африканских коллег, которые будут участвовать в мероприятиях 4 – 6 апреля в Абудже. Он также сообщил о ходе подготовки к предстоящим мероприятий, о приглашениях на открытие и проведение мероприятий писателей Африканского континента, официальных государственных лиц, сотрудников дипломатических корпусов. В частности, ожидается присутствие на открытии дней WOW в Абудже Вице-Президента Нигерии Hon Kashim Shettima, лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе профессора Wole Soyinka, министра образования Нигерии профессора Tahir Mamman, министра федеральной столичной территории Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, министра культуры госпожи Hannatu Musawa.
Александр Иванов, как модератор бизнес-форума, руководитель Евразийской инвестиционной компании и сопредседатель инвестиционной компании Совета по международной экономической деятельности АНЕ выразил готовность Совета по международной деятельности АНЕ принять участие в предстоящих в Нигерии событиях, встретиться с партнёрами профильных направлений из стран африканского континента, пригласить их к сотрудничеству. Также он обратился за поддержкой и помощью в привлечении потенциальных партнёров к писателям и журналистам различных СМИ.
Координатор культурно-образовательного форума на мероприятиях в Абудже, руководитель Департамента развития международного образования и партнерства госпожа Алана Кочиева отметила, что в рамках Первого Конгресса WOW будут обсуждаться ключевые, стратегические для всего мира вопросы гуманитарной безопасности и гуманитарной модернизации, которые разработаны послом Доброй воли ЮНЕСКО Александрой Очировой.
Координатор конкурса премии WOW, почётный член Союза писателей Азербайджана Эльдар Ахадов отметил, что впервые в истории литературы конкурс будет вестись одновременно на четырех языках – русском, английском, арабском и испанском. На конкурс уже заявлены книги хорошо известных международной общественности писателей из Мексики, Индии, Португалии, Шри Ланка, Вьетнама, Китая, Дании и других стран. Координатор также сообщил о том, что мероприятия WOW в Абудже приветствуют известные поэты и писатели, как легендарный Бахыт Кенжеев, сопредседатель Союза писателей России, член координационного совета Международного поэтического движения World Poetry Movement (WPM) Вадим Терёхин; лауреат более двухсот пятидесяти национальных и международных литературных наград итальянская поэтесса и переводчик Claudia Piccinno; колумбийский поэт, профессор кафедры философии Университета Антиокии в Медельине Mauricio Arcila Arango. Свои приветствия готовы направить участникам мероприятий Издательский Дом Aabs Publishing House и журнал Reader's Choice (Мумбаи, Индия); Международный центр перевода и исследования поэзии и журнал Rendition of International Poetry Quarterly (Китайская народная республика).
Президент Азиатской ассоциации журналистов Ashraf Abul-Yazid, как представитель международной информационной платформы World Cooperation of Media отметил исключительную роль и важность СМИ в освещении предстоящих в Нигерии мероприятий. Готовность сотрудничать с нами выразили представители 25 различных мировых СМИ.
С приветственными словами к участникам конференции обратились сопредседатель Литературного совета Ассамблеи народов Евразии, главный редактор таджикской газеты «Фурги Фаранг» («Рассвет культуры»), Абдукаххор Косимов и член комитета по развитию агропромышленного комплекса Торгово-промышленной Палаты РФ Владимир Лищук.
В заключение конференции её участники запечатлелись на памятной общей фотографии.
Автор статьи - Эльдар Ахадов
ТЕГИ ВСЕМИРНАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ПИСАТЕЛЕЙ WOW
