Fictional Kazakh television reporter Borat Sagdiyev, who made movie audiences around the world laugh and cringe as he toured the United States, is going into print with a book of travel advice. Borat, the creation of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, has signed a book deal with Flying Dolphin Press, an imprint of Random House Inc. s Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group. Suzanne Herz, publisher of Flying Dolphin Press, said it will be two books in one - one half a guide to the United States for Kazakhs and the other half a guide to Kazakhstan for Westerners. The book, to be released in hardcover, will have a dual title: Borat: Touristic Guidings To Minor Nation of U.S. and A. and Borat: Touristic Guidings To Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. There is one and only Borat and we are honored to have him join our pantheon of international writers, Herz said in a statement. It has been a year since the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to become a box office hit that grossed over $250 million worldwide. The fake documentary also earned an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay and Cohen won a Golden Globe for his performance. Based on a character he created for his TV show Da Ali G Show, the film stars Cohen as a cluelessly offensive TV reporter with a thick mustache, wide-eyed grin and phrases like sexy time! who goes on a cross-country US trip. The movie is driven by Cohen s improvised, unrehearsed encounters with ordinary Americans who become his unsuspecting comic foils.
