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Turkmen Leader Opens Village, Museum Named After His Father

Turkmen Leader Opens Village, Museum Named After His Father

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exican pop-rock folk singer Song, which honors songwriting, for beats and hip-hop influences-follows performers including the norteno act Los tion, with superstars including Balvin, Natalia Lafourcade took home “Rene.” The 21st edition of the awards years of snubs by the Latin American Tigres del Norte and Colombian crooner Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Maluma, Daddy Mthe coveted Latin Grammy for normally held in Las Vegas were Recording Academy. After much protest taking home trophies. Yankee, Karol G and Nicky Jam Album of the Year, at a socially dis- instead anchored in Miami, with a slew this year the institution gave the genre won the gramophone in snubbed in the general categories. tanced gala where high hopes for reg- of virtual performances, including from its own category, with Latin trap king another new category, Best Rap/Hip- “Without reggaeton, there’s no Latin gaeton fell short. Lafourcade won the Anitta in Rio de Janeiro and Bad Bunny Bad Bunny taking home that prize, for Hop song, for “Antes Que El Mundo Se Grammys” read a slogan in Spanish that night’s top prize for “Un canto por from San Juan. Balvin, decked out in a “Yo Perreo Sola.” Acabe”-a track about love in the pan- mushroomed across social media, Mexico,” after reggaeton superstar J white suit with a heart image bleeding demic. won Best Pop vocal along with an image of the Grammy Balvin had led the pack with a record 13 from his chest, was the telecast’s first Reggaeton demands a seat Album for “Pausa” as Ozuna and logo crossed out with a large red “X.” nominations. But in the end the winner, taking home Best Urban Album Oscar-nominated Mexican actress Spanish flamenco experimentalist Balvin went so far as to skip the 2019 Colombian took home just a single tro- for “Colores.” Yalitza Aparicio-famous for her role in Rosalia won two prizes in the “urban” show, as Bad Bunny, who won that phy, as fellow leaders of the massively “What the world needs right now is Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma”-hosted the category for “Yo x ti, tu x me.” Rosalia, year’s Best Urban Music Album, popular style also lost out in the general color,” said Balvin in accepting the event, flanked by singers who was 2019’s big Latin Grammy win- decried “people who still have trouble field in what had been billed as the year award, noting in particular the Latin and Ana Brenda. Miami’s own Pitbull ner, also won for Best Short Form Music accepting that reggaeton is a genre the genre would get its due. American countries hard hit by paid tribute to frontline workers fighting Video for “TKN,” a clip featuring rapper established for more than two Spaniard snagged Hurricanes Eta and Iota. The disap- the Covid-19 pandemic, with special Travis Scott. decades.”— AFP the coveted Best Record for “Contigo,” pointment in the general categories for guests including nurses and firefighters Reggaeton’s 2020 letdown follows as Puerto Rican Residente-a co-founder reggaeton-a massively popular Puerto joining the act. Most of the 53 awards years of controversy that came to a of the alt-rap group Calle 13 - won Best Rican-born amalgam of Caribbean were handed out prior to broadcast, with head in the award show’s previous edi-

Turkmen leader opens village, museum named after his father

urkmenistan’s autocratic leader Gurbanguly Berdymukha- T`medov opened a village and museum named after his father, state media said yesterday, the lat- est honour bestowed on the ruling family’s ageing patriarch. The new village north of the capital Ashgabat is home to several dozen two-story houses where police and other ser- Winning Author is seen on screen at The 2020 Awards Ceremony, Photo shows this year’s winning book by the author Douglas Stuart at The 2020 vicemen will live with their families, broadcast in partnership with the BBC, at the Roundhouse in . — AFP photos Booker Prize Awards Ceremony. according to a report on state televi- sion. Berdymukhamedov was shown cutting a ribbon for the new village and showing off storage units full of meat, eggs and fruit while decked out in military attire. The head of Turkmenistan’s security council Charymyrat Amanov told the president that the honour was a trib- ute to the “selfless and impeccable” career of his father Myalikguly Berdymukhamedov — a career policeman. Amanov praised the old- er Berdymukhamedov’s “special cottish author Douglas Stuart on “love story” looking at the kind of merits in educating young people in Thursday was awarded the 2020 “unconditional, often-tested love” that the spirit of devotion to the SBooker Prize for his acclaimed children can have for flawed parents. Motherland” and his “high moral “Shuggie Bain,” set in his In an emotional speech, the 44-year- qualities”. home city of . “I always want- old, who now lives in New York, said: Myalikguly Berdymukhamedov, ed to be a writer so this is fulfilling a “My mother would be thrilled, she 88, has been awarded multiple state dream,” said Stuart, whose novel about would be absolutely thrilled and I think honors during his son’s rule and his a working-class family in the 1980s was she would be proud.” He said that he poetry has formed the basis for sev- inspired by his own childhood. “This had carried “a lot of love and pain” and eral popular songs. The museum in has changed my entire life,” he said in writing the book was “incredibly heal- the new village is the second one his acceptance speech. ing for me.” He also paid tribute to his honoring him with another housed native city, saying that “growing up in inside a barracks where he once Glasgow I think is one of the greatest served as a policeman. In 2017, inspirations of my life.” Stuart was one Berdymukhamedov authored a book of four debut novelists among the six about his father and Turkmenistan’s finalists for one of the world’s most police force called “Brave Guys are prestigious literary awards. Born for Fortitude”. Ahead of the announcement, British But Berdymukhamedov, 63, has bookmakers had backed Stuart to not yet gone as far as his eccentric claim the prize for the best work of predecessor Saparmurat Niyazov English-language fiction published in who renamed the month of April the UK and . He was chosen as after his mother. It was changed winner from the most diverse shortlist in In this handout image released by the Booker Prize, shortlisted authors (top left to right) back to April after Niyazov died and the prize’s five-decade history at a cer- Douglas Stuart, Diane Cook, Avni Doshi, (bottom left to right) , Maaza Mengiste Berdymukhamedov - his former den- emony featuring contributions from for- and Tsitsi Dangarembga are seen on a screen at The 2020 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony at tist and health minister - cemented mer US president and the Roundhouse in London. control. Berdymukhamedov regular- the Duchess of Cornwall. The Booker ly opens new accommodation for has launched careers and courted ‘Welcoming the new’ books on the shortlist,” she added. state officials despite an economic controversy since its creation in 1969. This year’s finalists also included Dangarembga’s final volume in her tril- downturn that began with the 2014 The winner receives £50,000 American Avni Doshi’s first novel “Burnt ogy that started with “Nervous oil price crash. The practice is seen ($66,000, 56,000 euros) in prize money Sugar” alongside fellow US debutants Conditions” chronicles the journey of a as a method of binding government and huge international attention. Diane Cook (“The New Wilderness”) young girl from Zimbabwe sinking into officials to the authoritarian regime. Judges last year tore up the rule book and Brandon Taylor (“Real Life”). poverty. Human Rights Watch said in by awarding it jointly to Canadian Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Mengiste, the first Ethiopian author to September that state inaction in author and Anglo- Dangarembga (“This Mournable make the Booker’s shortlist, tells the story response to the economic drag of Nigerian author . Body”) and Ethiopian-American Maaza of the uprising against the Italian invasion the coronavirus had “drastically Evaristo said at Thursday’s ceremony Mengiste (“The Shadow King”) were in the 1930s. “Burnt Sugar” by Doshi exacerbated Turkmenistan’s pre- Photo shows the book ‘Shuggie Bain’ by that winning the prize was a “magical the only established authors on the list. explores the complex relationship existing food crisis”. State officials Douglas Stuart. moment” and “I feel like I was launched The list was whittled down by a panel between an ageing mother and her have never acknowledged food out into the world as an author.” Past of five judges from a US-dominated daughter in contemporary India, while shortages. Earlier this month Like the other finalists, the 44-year- laureates have included celebrated longlist of 13 finalists, which had Cook’s “The New Wilderness” is a Berdymukhamedov opened a large old writer, who now lives in New York, writers from Ian McEwan and Julian included veteran . dystopian fiction set in a world made residential complex for civil servants was watching the socially distanced Barnes to and Roddy , chair of the five inhospitable by the climate crisis. with a six-meter gold leaf statue of a ceremony via video link due to the anti- Doyle. became the first 2020 judges, said before announcing Taylor’s “Real Life” debut follows an intro- dog as its centerpiece. The Alabai virus lockdown in place in Britain. American winner when the Booker the prize that “discovering great litera- verted man’s experience of racism as he shepherd dog, like the Akhal-Teke Stuart’s book reflects his own experi- bowed to pressure and began includ- ture depends on freeing the imagina- arrives at an American university. — AFP horse, is a native breed that ences growing up with a mother who ing authors from outside the tion, being open to welcoming the Berdymukhamedov has promoted was an alcoholic and died from her Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe new.” “I don’t think I’m breaking the as part of his leadership cult. — AFP addiction. He described the book as a in 2013.. rules to say this: please read all the

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