High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ali and Nino: A Love Story is a love story published under the pseudonym Kurban Said. The novel now has been published in more than 30 languages, with nearly 100 editions or reprints. The book was first published in Vienna in the German language in 1937, by E.P. Tal Verlag. Current research shows that Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, not Essad Bey, is the primary core author of the novel Ali and Nino.