Kazakh nominates star of ‘Borat’
A leading Kazakh writer has nominated actor Sasha Baron Cohen for a national award for popularizing Kazakhstan.
Novelist Sapabek Asip-uly called on the Kazakh Club of Art Patrons to give Baron Cohen its annual award, according to a letter published by the Vremya newspaper in Almaty, Kazakhstan, this week.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Nov. 30, 2006 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday November 30, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 41 words Type of Material: Correction
“Borat”: A Quick Takes item in Saturday’s Calendar section, an article about the Toronto Film Festival in the Sept. 9 Calendar and a Monday Briefing item in the Oct. 16 Section A misspelled “Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen’s name as Sasha.
Baron Cohen’s fictional character Borat, now starring in a hit film, “has managed to spark an immense interest of the whole world in Kazakhstan, something our authorities could not do during the years of independence,” said Asip-uly, known for several novels describing the Russian colonization of Kazakh lands and the Stalinist purges against Kazakhstan’s political and cultural elite in the 1930s.
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