The American Library Association (ALA) has included “Stone Dreams,” a novella by Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli, in its rundown of books threatened in the past year.

The work, which depicts the pogroms carried out by the Azerbaijanis against the Armenians in Sumgait and in Baku, is banned in Azerbaijan for presenting Armenians in sympathetic light.

Because of this novella, Aylisli has been persecuted and stripped of his titles in Azerbaijan.

Akram Aylisli has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose winner will be announced on October 10.