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Nuon Kan

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Nuon Kan was a Cambodian writer, composer, and professor of music and performing arts, who escaped the Cambodian genocide, which annihilated most of the musicians and scholars of his generation. He is the author of a popular patriotic hymn entitled the History of Khmer People. Biography Nuon Kan was born on June 18, 1937, in Sangkat 4, Phnom Penh. He joined the Cambodian Writers’ Association in 1958. With a scholarship from the Asia Foundation, he went to study performing arts and directing in France, where he studied under the guidance of Pierre Valde from 1961 to 1965. In 1965, he was invited to join the East-West Seminar organized by the International Theatre Institute at the UNESCO. In 1967 he graduated in performing arts from the Sorbonne. In 1968, he joined the recently founded International University Center for Dramatic Training and Research (Centre universitaire international de formation et de recherche dramatique) under the direction of Jack Lang in Nancy, where he received his master’s degree, before returning to Phnom Penh. In the 1970s, during the Khmer Civil War, he was a professor on contract with the Royal University of Fine Arts, and he was appointed acting direct

Nury Halmammedov

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Nurmammet Halmammedovich Halmammedov (; ; 20 June 1938– 4 August 1983), also known as Nury Halmammedov (; ) or Nury Halmammet (; ), was a prominent Turkmen composer described as one of Turkmenistan’s “Greatest Sons”. His legacy has been commemorated with anniversary events in Turkmenistan and Russia. Early childhood and education Halmammedov was born on 20 June 1938 in Daýna village near Bäherden, Turkmenistan, to Halmammet Bayliyev and Hangul-Eje Mammedaliyeva. He had a cat, which died protecting Nury from a snake when he was an infant. Nury never forgot about him. Nury had a very difficult childhood. According to Jemile Gurbanova’s biography of Halmammedov, his mother died in 1944, and his father moved to Iran with two of the family’s four sons, Begmammet and Ashyrberdi, abandoning Nury, his 17-year-old brother, Bayly, and older sister, Artyk. Nury’s memories of this time were grim. He recounted at one point. : Since in my childhood I drank cloudy water from an irrigation ditch and lived off the grasses growing along its banks, by age 4 or 5 my belly swelled up and was elastic, like a ball. Because of my round stomach I couldn’t see my own feet. Bayly committed Nury to the Garryg