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BEST HAIRSTYLE CELEBRITY: SOFIA VERGARA MOST POPULAR FAMOUS PERSON: PRINCE WILLIAM BEST SONG OF THE YEAR: HELLO BY ADELE BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR: WORK BY RIHANNAH AND DRAKE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR: DOCTOR STRANGE MOST POPULAR AFRICAN ICON: CHINUA ACHEBE MOST POPULAR INTERNATIONAL MOGUL: BILL GATES

BEST AUTHOR OF THE YEAR: LIVE BY NIGHT BY DENNIS LEHANE

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EACH CATEGORY HAS THREE NOMINEES WITH ONE WINNER IN EACH. ALL THE BEST! WE ARE GLAD TO INCLUDE THE BEST INTERNATIONAL MOGUL THIS YEAR TOO. THIS INCLUDES A POPULAR WEALTHY INTERNATIONAL COMPANY OR INDIVIDUAL!

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1. KERRY WASHINGTON

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Kerry Marisa Washington Asomugha (born January 31, 1977) is an American actress. 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

Since 2012, Washington has gained wide public recognition for starring in the

ABC drama Scandal, a Shonda Rhimes series in which she plays Olivia Pope, a crisis management expert to politicians and power brokers in Washington DC. For her role, she has been nominated twice for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series.

2007, and as Broomhilda von Schaft in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012). She has also starred in the independent films Our Song (2000), The Dead Girl (2006), Mother and Child (2009) and Night Catches Us (2010). In 2016, she portrayed Anita Hill in the HBO television film Confirmation and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie.

Washington is also known for her roles as Della Bea Robinson, in the film Ray (2004), as Kay in The Last King of Scotland (2006), as Alicia Masters in the live-action Fantastic Four films of 2005 and

For Kerry Washington, lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking pretty great. She has a new baby, just got a fresh haircut and celebrates her 40th birthday today. And though her red carpet style is impossible to pin down

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– one day she’s goth, the next day sexy, the next oh-so-glam – she has a few beauty signatures that have us furiously keeping track of all the best beauty advice she’s given to PeopleStyle editors throughout the years. Want to look this dewy, glowy and gorgeous at 40? You might want to screenshot this page. 1. Always Go to Bed with a Clean Face “I am religious about taking my makeup off and going to bed with clean skin. My husband [Nnamdi Asomugha] is always like, ‘Wow, no matter what, you wash your face!’ I’m OCD about that. I keep makeup remover wipes in my car, on-set – even on my bedside table!” 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

2. Streamline Your Beauty Routine “These days I’m also looking for ways to make my style and makeup sessions happen more quickly, because the more time I have to be a mom, the better. It takes a village!” “Off the red carpet, I usually wear my hair the same way every day: up in a bun. I do so much to it, whether its [using] heat tools on-set or swimming with my kid, that I like to put a good deep conditioning mask in my hair, throw it up in a bun and just let it heal.” Always, Always, Always Load Up On SPF “I grew up in a household where everybody swims,

so SPF was important. A lot of black and brown girls feel like we don’t need to protect ourselves from the sun. There are benefits to melanin, but protection from skin cancer is not one of them. So, black girls do rock, but we need SPF.” Keep Your Lipstick at Hand, Always “The one thing you don’t want to do is forget your lipstick, because you’ll eat, and then you’re like, ‘My look isn’t complete because I didn’t bring my lipstick,’ and you’re stuck!” 2. SOFIA VERGARA

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Find a Way to DeStress “I’m a big Pilates girl. And I love to get my cardio in when I can. For me, it’s less about what I’m doing and more that I am showing up for myself.” Stick With The Basics “I like to throw on a little concealer and a fun lip and feel good. Neutrogena makes these Moisture Smooth Color Sticks that I like because they’re sheer. You have to be kissable on a date night, otherwise what’s the point?”

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SofĂa Margarita Vergara Vergara (Spanish pronunciation: born July 10, 1972) is a Colombian-American actress and model.

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Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network UnivisiĂłn in the late 1990s. Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi (2003). Subsequently, she appeared in other films, including Four Brothers (2005) and two Tyler Perry films: Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter. Vergara's success on television has earned her roles in films The Smurfs (2011), New Year's Eve (2011), Happy Feet Two (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Escape from Planet Earth (2013), Machete Kills (2013), Chef (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015). In 2012, 2013, and 2016, she was the top-earning actress on US television. 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

Vergara stars on the ABC series Modern Family as Gloria DelgadoPritchett, for which she has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2014, she was ranked as the 32nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes REDBOOK: A fun fact about you is that you're a natural blonde. Does dyeing your hair darker require a lot of upkeep? Sofia Vergara: Having blonde roots with dark hair, you start looking bald! So I've been making it lighter recently, just because it's easier. When my hair was very dark, I had to dye my roots every monthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was a lot of maintenance. Now I can go

two or three months between colorings. RB: And those bombshell waves of yours—are they natural? SV: My hair is actually straight, so I use a curling iron to create them because my hair doesn't do well with a lot of product. I can't put oils, pomades, or anything else in it because it gets weighed down. I just use shampoo, conditioner, and hairspray. My family has used Head & Shoulders forever [Sofia and her family are spokesmodels for the brand]. RB: What about makeup—what are your go-to products? SV: I've worn the same shades my whole life because I know what looks good on me and at my age. I 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

used to do more black eyeliner, but now that I'm older I wear browns because black can be too much. And I own a million products. RB: Are there days where you just don't feel like being glam? SV: Not really, no. I don't always curl my hair or wear false lashes, but I do full makeup every day and I always have. RB: How long does it typically take you to get ready? SV: An hour and 15 minutes. I take my time—I like showering, scrubbing, bubbling. Everyone is always rushing me! They'll lie about when an event starts to try to get me there on time. But I always know, so I don't give a damn.

RB: Is there any part of getting ready that you don't like? SV: Manicures. I don't have the patience for someone to give me one. So I'll paint my nails in the car on the way to the Golden Globes or to the airport. RB: You just launched your first scent, Sofia. Tell us about it. SV: I don't like anything too flowery, too musky, or too fruity, so I made a mix of all three. The fragrance has notes of purple violet and Colombian rose, fruity notes like plum and blackberry, and a base note of sandalwood so it's sexy. RB: Do you have an anti-aging regimen? 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

SV: I've used CrĂ¨me de la Mer since before I was supposed to; I believe in prevention. Because once your skin is sagging, it's sagging. RB: So would you ever consider plastic surgery? SV: Why not? I mean, not yet, but maybe [I'll do] my under-eye bags in my 50s. We'll see what I need, but I'm not saying no! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;As told to Kate Sullivan

3. KATY PERRY

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer and songwriter. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager. Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001, which was commercially 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music after Red Hill ceased operations and she subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke, and Max Martin. After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, she signed a recording contract

with Capitol Records in April 2007. Perry rose to fame in 2008 with the release of the singles "I Kissed a Girl"—which sparked controversy for its homosexual themes—and "Hot n Cold" from her second album, a pop rock record titled One of the Boys. Her third album, Teenage Dream (2010), ventured into disco, and contained the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charttopping singles "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T.", and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" as well as the number-three single "The One That Got Away". The album became the first by a female artist to produce five number-one songs in the U.S., and the second overall after Michael Jackson's album Bad. In March 2012, she re-issued the album as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, which produced the songs 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

"Part of Me" and "Wide Awake". Her fourth album, Prism, was released in 2013, and is influenced by pop and dance. She became the first artist with multiple videos to reach one billion views on Vevo with the videos for its songs "Roar" and "Dark Horse". Perry has received many awards, including four Guinness World Records, a Brit Award, and a Juno Award, and been included in the Forbes list of "TopEarning Women In Music" (2011–2016). Her estimated net worth as of 2016 is $125 million. She is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, having sold 100 million records globally throughout her career. In film, she released an autobiographical documentary titled Katy Perry: Part of Me in 2012, and voiced Smurfette in the

2011 film The Smurfs and its sequel in 2013.

What's step one when you're off-duty to get glowy skin?

When you think of Katy Perry, the image of her dancing alongside sharks at the Super Bowl or in a blue wig and cupcake-inspired ensemble might come to mind. Whatever the image, it's certainly nothing you'd ever describe as vanilla. So when I met up with Perry at the Magic Castle in L.A. to hear all about her latest scent, Mad Potion, it wasn't surprising that she'd given the tried-and-true note a whole new spin. "Vanilla, they say, is an aphrodisiac," she told me. Between her superalluring fragrances and everchanging makeup looks, Perry always keeps us wondering what's next. Here, she talks all things beauty â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including game-changing ways to use lipstick (and the best stand-in nail file trick we've heard in a while).

Bronzers! I wear so little makeup when I'm not on stage. There's a Covergirl Bronzer three-in-one called Clean Glow Bronzer that I use. Then it's just mascara and brows.

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So would you say that's your typical beauty ritual? It really depends! When I'm at home, I'm a lot more plebeian. I love the summer and I love a little bit of Vitamin D. But when I'm on stage, it's all about creating a character and being an exaggerated version of myself. You create on-stage personas better than anyone in the business. What are a few of your favorites? I feel like the world is my playing field and I especially

love pulling from all sorts of different eras. Typically, I've always connected with a vintage pinup girl, but lately I've leaned more toward a tumbler rat or alternative grunge girl. But that's the magic of makeup! You can transform yourself depending on your mood. Oh yeah, it's like highlighting what you already have. Speaking of magic, what's the connection with it in your new fragrance Mad Potion? Perfume to me is like a potion and can be very enchanting. Scents create these incredible memories. Think about it: Sometimes you'll walk past someone in a hallway who is wearing a fragrance you used to spray when you were a teen. It transports you back to that 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

time. I love that scents are so powerful! Do you connect with any of the notes in this fragrance? Yes! I have worn vanilla since I was a teenager and it's always been so alluring â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially to the opposite sex. As I got older my tastes kind of changed and I wanted something a little bit more androgynous, which pushed me more towards musks. The combination of those two made me feel like I'm wearing something that's both. So I could attract anything or anyone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; everything is fluid. Even in your beauty regimen! There are so many products out now that we want to work double duty. Do you use any in unintended ways? I feel like you can take any lipstick and make it a blush. I use it like finger paint and

you can put it on your eyes, too. When you're using less of a matte and more of a cream lipstick, it moves better and gives you a gloss. Do you have a face-washing routine after that? I never sleep with my makeup on unless I'm, like, spending the night over at a guy's house. Then I wake up an hour early to get that natch look! No, not anymore. I used to do that a lot when I was younger. Now I'm like,

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what you see is what you get. To wash my face I use Shu Uemura Cleansing Oil and have for several years now. I used to be deathly afraid of putting oil on my face but it really pulls out the dirt from my skin. Quick! You snag a nail on the go. How do you fix it? Actually, I was looking for a nail file the other day and I didn't have one so I just used a matchbook. Weird little tricks!

1. PRINCE WILLIAM

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, KG, KT, PC, ADC(P) (William Arthur Philip Louis;born 21 June 1982) is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

Diana, Princess of Wales. He is second in line to succeed his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, after his father. William was educated at four schools in the United

Kingdom and obtained a degree from the University of St Andrews. He spent parts of a gap year in Chile, Belize, and some parts of Africa. In December 2006, he completed 44 weeks of training as an officer cadet and was commissioned in the Blues and Royals regiment. In April 2008, he qualified as a pilot (earning his wings) by completing pilot training at Royal Air Force College Cranwell. He then underwent helicopter flying training in order to become a full-time .

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pilot with the RAF Search and Rescue Force in early 2009. His service with the British Armed Forces ended in September 2013. William married Catherine Middleton, on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey. Hours before the wedding, he was created Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn, and Baron Carrickfergus. The couple's first child, Prince George, was born on 22 July 2013, and their second, Princess Charlotte, was born on 2 May 2015

2. ANGELA MERKEL

Angela Dorothea Merkel (nĂŠe Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German politician who is currently Chancellor of Germany. She is also the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). A former research scientist with a doctorate in physical chemistry, Merkel entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, and briefly served as a deputy 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

spokesperson for the first democratically elected East German Government headed by Lothar de MaiziĂ¨re in 1990. Following German reunification in 1990, Merkel was elected to the Bundestag for the state of MecklenburgVorpommern, and has been reelected ever since. Merkel was appointed as the Minister for Women and Youth in the federal government under Chancellor Helmut Kohl in

1991, and became the

Minister for

the Environment in 1994. After her party lost the federal election in 1998, Merkel was elected Secretary-General of the CDU before becoming the party's first woman leader two years later in the aftermath of a donations scandal that toppled Wolfgang SchĂ¤uble.

At the 2013 federal election, Merkels CDU won a landslide victory with 41.5% of the vote and formed a second grand coalition with the SPD, after the FDP lost all of its representation in the Bundestag.

Following the 2005 federal election, Merkel was appointed Germany's first woman Chancellor at the head of a grand coalition consisting of the CDU, its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In the 2009 federal election, the CDU obtained the largest share of the vote and Merkel was able to form a coalition government with the support of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

In 2007, Merkel was President of the European Council and chaired the G8, the second woman to do so. Merkel played a central role in the negotiation of the Treaty of Lisbon and the Berlin Declaration. One of Merkel's consistent priorities has been to strengthen transatlantic economic relations. Merkel played a crucial role in managing the financial crisis at the European and international level, and she has been referred to as "the decider." In domestic policy, health care reform, problems concerning future energy development and more

recently her government's approach to the ongoing migrant crisis have been major issues during her Chancellorship. Merkel has been widely described as the de facto leader of the European Union throughout her tenure as Chancellor. Merkel has twice been named the world's second most powerful person by Forbes magazine, the highest ranking ever achieved by a woman. In December 2015, Merkel was named as Time magazine's Person of the Year, with the magazine's cover declaring her to be the "Chancellor of the Free World."

3. KIM JONG-UN. 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

On 26 March 2014, Merkel became the longest-serving incumbent head of government in the European Union and she is currently the senior G7 leader. In May 2016, Merkel was named the most powerful woman in the world for a record tenth time by Forbes. On 20 November 2016, Merkel announced she would seek re-election to a fourth term. Since late 2016, Merkel has been widely described as the leader of the free world.

Kim Jong-un (Chosŏn'gŭl: 김정은 orean: im d ɯn] born 8 January 1984 or 5 July 1984)is the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea. Kim is the third and youngest son of Kim Jong-il (1941– 2011) and his consort Ko Yong-hui.Little is known for certain about Kim Jong-un. Before taking power, Kim had barely been seen in public, and many of the activities of both Kim and his government remain shrouded 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

in secrecy. Even details such as what year he was born, and whether he did indeed attend a Western school under a pseudonym, are difficult to confirm with certainty. Kim was officially declared the supreme leader following the state funeral of his father on 28 December 2011. Kim holds the titles of Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Chairman of the National Defence Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army,and presidium

member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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Kim was promoted to the rank of Marshal of North Korea in the Korean People's Army on 18 July 2012, consolidating his position as the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and is often referred to as Marshal Kim Jong-un or "the Marshal" by state media.

Scarce information on Kim Jong-un's early life comes from North Korean defectors and people who have claimed to witness him abroad, such as during his school attendance in Switzerland. Some of the information has been conflicting and contradictory, perhaps conflating him with his brother, Kim Jong-chul, who also attended school in Switzerland around the same time. Nevertheless, there has been some consensus on information about his early life. North Korean authorities have stated that his birthdate is 8 January 1982, but South Korean intelligence officials believe the actual date is a year later. Former basketball player Dennis Rodman said that the birthdate is 8 January 1983 after meeting Kim in September 2013 in North Korea.Kim Jong-Un was the

Kim obtained two degrees, one in physics at Kim Il-sung University, and another as an Army officer at the Kim Ilsung Military University. On 9 March 2014, Kim Jongun was elected unopposed to the Supreme People's Assembly. At 32 or 33 years of age, Kim is the first North Korean leader born after the country's founding. Kim was named the World's 46th Most Powerful Person by the Forbes list of The World's 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

second of three children Ko Yong-hui bore to Kim Jongil; his elder brother Kim Jong-chul was born in 1981, while his younger sister, Kim Yo-jong, is believed to have been born in 1987. According to reports first published in Japanese newspapers, he went to school in Switzerland near Bern. First reports claimed he attended the private Englishlanguage International School in Gümligen under the name "Chol-pak" or "Pak-chol" from 1993 to 1998.He was described as shy, a good student who got along well with his classmates and was a basketball fan.He was chaperoned by an older student, who was thought to be his bodyguard. Later, it was reported that Kim Jong-un attended the Liebefeld Steinhölzli school in Köniz near Bern under the name "Pak-un" or "Un-pak" 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

from 1998 until 2000 as the son of an employee of the North Korean embassy in Bern. Authorities of Köniz confirmed that a student from North Korea, registered as the son of a member of the embassy, attended the school from August 1998 until the autumn of 2000, but were unable to give details about his identity. Pak-un first attended a special class for foreign-language children and later attended the regular classes of the 6th, 7th, 8th, and part of the final 9th year, leaving the school abruptly in the autumn of 2000. He was described as a well-integrated and ambitious student who liked to play basketball. However, his grades and attendance rating are reported to have been poor. The ambassador of North Korea in Switzerland, Ri Chol, had a close relationship with him and acted as a mentor.One of Pak-un's classmates told

reporters that he had told him that he was the son of the leader of North Korea.According to some reports, Jong-un was described by classmates as a shy child who was awkward with girls and indifferent to political issues, but who distinguished himself in sports and had a fascination with the American National Basketball Association and Michael Jordan. One friend claimed that he had been shown pictures of Pak-un with Kobe Bryant and Toni ukoč. In April 2012, new documents came to light indicating that Kim Jong-un had lived in Switzerland since 1991 or 1992, earlier than previously thought. The Laboratory of Anatomic Anthropology at the University of Lyon, France, after comparing the picture of 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

the boy Pak-un taken at the Liebefeld Steinhölzli school in 1999 with a picture of Kim Jong-un from 2012 came to the conclusion that the two faces show a conformity of 95%. The head of the institute, Raoul Perrot, a forensic anthropologist, considers it most likely that the two pictures show the same person. It is believed that the student at the Gümligen International School may not have been Kim Jong-un, but his elder brother Kim Jong-chol. It is not known whether the student known as Pak-un in Liebefeld Steinhölzli lived in Switzerland prior to 1998.All the children of Kim Jong-il are said to have lived in Switzerland, as well as the mother of the two youngest sons, who lived in Geneva for some time.

1. HELLO BY ADELE

"Hello" is a song by English singer Adele. It was released on 23 October 2015 by XL Recordings as the lead single from her third studio album, 25 (2015). Adele co-wrote the song with her producer, Greg Kurstin. "Hello" is a piano ballad with soul influences, and lyrics 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

that discuss themes of nostalgia and regret. Upon release, the song was well received by music critics, who compared it favourably to Adele's previous work and praised the song's lyrics and Adele's vocals. It was recorded in London.

"Hello" reached number one in almost every country it charted in, including the United Kingdom, where it became her second UK number-one single, following "Someone like You", and has the largest opening week sales in three years. In the United States, "Hello" debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Adele's fourth number-one on the chart and breaking several records, including becoming the first song to sell over a million digital copies in a week. By the end of 2015, it had sold 12.3 million units globally (combined sales and trackequivalent streams) and was the year's 7th bestselling single.

directed by Xavier Dolan and co-stars Adele and Tristan Wilds. The music video for the song broke the Vevo Record by achieving over 27.7 million views within a 24-hour span, held previously by Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" which accumulated 20.1 million views in that timeframe. It also broke the record for shortest time to attain 100 million Vevo views, previously held by Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball", as well as shortest time to reach 1 billion YouTube views (88 days). The clip received seven nominations at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year and Best Female Video.

The accompanying music video was

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"Hello" Hello, it's me I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet To go over everything They say that time's supposed to heal ya But I ain't done much healing Hello, can you hear me? I'm in California dreaming about who we used to be When we were younger and free I've forgotten how it felt before the world fell at our feet There's such a difference between us And a million miles Hello from the other side I must have called a thousand times To tell you I'm sorry for 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

everything that I've done But when I call you never seem to be home Hello from the outside At least I can say that I've tried To tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heart But it don't matter. It clearly doesn't tear you apart anymore Hello, how are you? It's so typical of me to talk about myself. I'm sorry I hope that you're well Did you ever make it out of that town where nothing ever happened? And it's no secret that the both of us Are running out of time So hello from the other side (other side) I must have called a thousand times (thousand times) To tell you I'm sorry for

everything that I've done But when I call you never seem to be home Hello from the outside (outside) At least I can say that I've tried (I've tried) To tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heart But it don't matter. It clearly doesn't tear you apart anymore [4x:] (Highs, highs, highs, highs, Lows, lows, lows, lows) Anymore

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Hello from the other side (other side) I must have called a thousand times (thousand times) To tell you I'm sorry for everything that I've done But when I call you never seem to be home Hello from the outside (outside) At least I can say that I've tried (I've tried) To tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heart But it don't matter. It clearly doesn't tear you apart anymore

2. CANT STOP THE FEELING BY JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

"Can't Stop the Feeling!" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Justin Timberlake for the soundtrack to the film Trolls, for which he serves as the executive music producer. It was written and produced by 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

Timberlake, Max Martin and Shellback. Musically, it is an uptempo disco-pop, soul-pop number with funk influences. The song was released as a single on May 6, 2016, and serviced to contemporary hit radio on May 10,

2016.Timberlake gave his first televised performance of "Can't Stop the Feeling!" during the interval act of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 grand final, event that garnered 204 million viewers worldwide. Directed by Mark Romanek, its music video was released on May 16, 2016, and follows Timberlake on a tour to everyday places as he dances through what a typical day might beâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was followed by a number of fan-made videos. The single debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100, opening with 379,000 downloads in its first week, marking Timberlake's fifth No. 1 single in the country, and making it the 26th song on the Hot 100 history to start at the summit of the chart. Additionally, it became the second song to spend its first 10 weeks atop the Digital Songs chart, joining The Black Eyed Peas' "Boom 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

Boom Pow" (2009). The single marked his fifth No. 1 single on the Radio Songs chart and eighth on the Mainstream Top 40. Internationally, it topped the charts in Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland, and the top-five in most of Europe. "Can't Stop the Feeling!" was the best-selling song of 2016 in the US with 2.49 million copies sold. For Apple Music it was the second most streamed and downloaded song of the year.The Official Charts Company from the UK named it Timberlake's biggest song in the country, for over 1 million units sold.The song has received several awards and nominations. It is currently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original

Song and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, and was previously nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Song

LYRICS CANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T STOP THE FEELING [Verse 1:] I got this feeling inside my bones It goes electric, wavey when I turn it on All through my city, all through my home We're flying up, no ceiling, when we're in our zone [Pre-chorus 1:] I got that sunshine in my pocket Got that good soul in my feet 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

I feel that hot blood in my body when it drops, ooh I can't take my eyes up off it, moving so phenomenally Room on lock the way we rock it, so don't stop [Chorus:] And under the lights when everything goes Nowhere to hide when I'm getting you close When we move, well, you already know So just imagine, just imagine, just imagine Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance Feeling good, good, creeping up on you So just dance, dance, dance, come on All those things I shouldn't do But you dance, dance, dance And ain't nobody leaving soon, so keep dancing [Post-chorus 1:] I can't stop the feeling

So just dance, dance, dance I can't stop the feeling So just dance, dance, dance, come on [Verse 2:] Ooh, it's something magical It's in the air, it's in my blood, it's rushing on Don't need no reason, don't need control I fly so high, no ceiling, when I'm in my zone [Pre-chorus 2:] 'Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket Got that good soul in my feet I feel that hot blood in my body when it drops, ooh I can't take my eyes up off it, moving so phenomenally Room on lock the way we rock it, so don't stop [Chorus:] And under the lights when everything goes Nowhere to hide when I'm getting you close When we move, well, you 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

already know So just imagine, just imagine, just imagine Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance Feeling good, good, creeping up on you So just dance, dance, dance, come on All those things I shouldn't do But you dance, dance, dance And ain't nobody leaving soon, so keep dancing [Post-chorus 2:] I can't stop the feeling So just dance, dance, dance I can't stop the feeling So just dance, dance, dance I can't stop the feeling So just dance, dance, dance I can't stop the feeling So keep dancing, come on [Bridge:] I can't stop the, I can't stop the I can't stop the, I can't stop

the I can't stop the feeling [Chorus:] Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance (I can't stop the feeling) Feeling good, good, creeping up on you So just dance, dance, dance, come on (I can't stop the feeling) All those things I shouldn't do But you dance, dance, dance (I can't stop the feeling) And ain't nobody leaving soon, so keep dancing [Post-chorus 3:] Everybody sing (I can't stop the feeling) Got this feeling in my body (I can't stop the feeling) Got this feeling in my body (I can't stop the feeling) Wanna see you move your

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body (I can't stop the feeling) Got this feeling in my body Break it down Got this feeling in my body Can't stop the feeling Got this feeling in my body, come on

1. CHEAP THRILLS BY SIA FEATURING SEAN PAUL

"Cheap Thrills" is a song recorded by Australian recording artist Sia for her seventh studio album, This Is Acting (2016). It was written by Sia and Greg Kurstin, while solely produced by Kurstin. An official remix version of "Cheap Thrills" features vocals by Jamaican performer Sean Paul and was 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

made available for digital download on 11 February 2016 as the record's second single.This version was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The song is a "bouncy", "reggaetinged" synthpop song that incorporates "a constant tropical beat and electropop-

style synth layers". Paul added his own lyrics to the remix of the song. In the United States, "Cheap Thrills" became Sia's first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Paul's first since "Temperature" in 2006; it also topped the national Mainstream Top 40 and Radio Songs charts. Among other countries, it also reached the top position in France, Germany, Canada and Italy, whilst going top ten in Australia. In the United Kingdom, the song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, marking Sia's highest peak as a lead artist in the region.

bang) Bounce with it girl Dance with it girl Get with it girl (Bada bang bang) [Verse 1: Sia] Come on, come on, turn the radio on It's Friday night and I won't be long Gotta do my hair, I put my make up on It's Friday night and I won't be long

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[Pre-Chorus: Sia (Sean Paul)] Til I hit the dance floor (Bada bang) Hit the dance floor (Bada bang) I got all I need (Sia) No I ain't got cash No I ain't got cash But I got you baby (Just you an me)

[Intro: Sean Paul] Up with it girl Rock with it girl Show dem it girl (Bada bang

[Chorus: Sia + Sean Paul] Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight (I love cheap thrills)

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Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight (I love cheap thrills) But I don't need no money You worth more dan diamonds, more dan gold As long as I can feel the beat Mek di beat jus tek control I don't need no money You worth more dan diamonds, more dan gold As long as I keep dancing Free up yourself, get outa control [Verse 2: Sia] Come on, come on, turn the radio on It's Saturday and I won't be long Gotta paint my nails, put my high heels on It's Saturday and I won't be long [Pre-Chorus: Sia (Sean Paul)] Til I hit the dance floor (Bada bang) Hit the dance floor (Bada bang) I got all I need (Sia) 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

No I ain't got cash No I ain't got cash But I got you baby (Just you an me) [Chorus: Sia + Sean Paul] Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight (I love cheap thrills) [Lyrics from: https:/lyrics.az/sean-paul//cheap-thrills-remix.html] Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight (I love cheap thrills) But I don't need no money You worth more dan diamonds, more dan gold As long as I can feel the beat Mek di beat jus tek control I don't need no money You worth more dan diamonds, more dan gold As long as I keep dancing Free up yourself, get outa control [Verse 3: Sean Paul] Me an you girl, you an me Drop it to di floor an mek mi see your energy because

Mi nah play na hide an seek Wah fi see di ting you have weg mek me feel weak girl Cause anytime you wine an kotch it Di selector pull it up an pull it pon repeat girl I'm nah touch a dollar in my pocket Cause nuttin in this world ain't more dan what you worth [Bridge: Sia + Sean Paul] But I don't need no money You worth more dan diamonds, more dan gold As long as I can feel the beat Mek di beat jus tek control I don't need no money You worth more dan diamonds, more dan gold As long as I keep dancing Free up yourself, get outa control Oh, oh [Chorus: Sia + Sean Paul] Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

(I love cheap thrills) Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight (I love cheap thrills) But I don't need no money You worth more dan diamonds, more dan gold As long as I can feel the beat Mek di beat jus tek control I don't need no money You worth more dan diamonds, more dan gold As long as I keep dancing Free up yourself, get outa control [Outro: Sia] La, la, la, la, la, la (I love cheap thrills) La, la, la, la, la, la (I love cheap thrills) La, la, la, la, la, la (I love cheap thrills) La, la, la, la, la (I love cheap thrills)

1. WORK BY RIHANNA FEATURING DRAKE

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"Work" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her eighth studio album, Anti (2016), featuring Canadian rapper Drake, the song was released as the lead single from Anti on January 27, 2016 through Westbury Road and Roc Nation. The song was written by PartyNextDoor, Drake, Rihanna, Monte Moir, Rupert "Sevn" Thomas, Allen Ritter and Matthew Samuels, and was produced by Boi-1da, Sevn Thomas, Ritter, Kuk Harrell and Noah "40" Shebib. The dancehall, reggae-pop and R&B song, contains an interpolation of "If You Were Here Tonight" (1985) performed by Alexander O'Neal. Lyrically, the song incorporates themes of working for money, as well as discussing fragile relationships. The song uses West Indian Patois and Creole.

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Critical response to "Work" was mixed; critics praised its composition and Rihanna's decision to return to her earlier themes of dancehall music, while others were more skeptical of the song's potential as a comeback for the singer. It is nominated for two awards at the 59th Grammy Awards: Record for the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, and has been included on several year-end lists. The song reached number one on the United States' Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming Rihanna's fourteenth numberone single and making her the act with the fourth-most number-one songs on the chart (after The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Mariah Carey). The song remained at the top for nine weeks. The song also peaked at number one in Canada, Brazil, Denmark, France, Netherlands and the top five of the charts in Australia, New Zealand,

Ireland, the United Kingdom and Germany. The song was accompanied by two music videos, which both premiered on February 22, 2016. The first of the two versions was directed by Rihanna's previous collaborator Director X, while the second was directed by Tim Erem. The song was further promoted with live performance's at the 2016 BRIT Awards which featured

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guest appearances from Drake and SZA, the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, as well as being performed on the Anti World Tour. "Work" became the first dancehall song to top the Billboard Hot 100 since Sean Paul's "Temperature" (2006) and was succeeded three weeks later by another dancehall song, Drake's "One Dance". As of December 2016, the song has sold 1.7 million copies in the US.

2. LEMONADE BY BEYONCE KNOWLES

Lemonade is the sixth studio album by American singer and songwriter Beyoncé. It was released on April 23, 2016, by Parkwood Entertainment and distributed through Columbia Records. The record is Beyoncé's second "visual album", following her eponymous 2013 record, and a concept album according to official description "a conceptual 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

project based on every woman’s journey of self knowledge and healing". While its predecessor featured individual music videos for each track, Lemonade was accompanied upon its release by a onehour film aired on HBO. Primarily an R&B album, Lemonade encompasses a variety of genres including pop, reggae, blues, rock, hip

hop, soul, funk, Americana, country, gospel, electronic and trap. It features guest vocals from James Blake, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, and Jack White. The album contains samples and interpolations of a number of hip-hop and rock songs. The record was made available for online streaming on April 23 through the streaming service Tidal, which Beyoncé co-owns, and released for paid purchase through the service the following day. It was later launched for purchase by track or album to Amazon Music and the iTunes Store on April 25, and at physical retailers on May 6. The record was widely acclaimed by critics, who praised it as Beyoncé's boldest work to date. Lemonade debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 485,000 copies in its first 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

week (653,000 with additional album-equivalent units), and earning Beyoncé her sixth consecutive number-one album in the country. The album was supported by five singles: "Formation", "Sorry", "Hold Up", "Freedom" (featuring Kendrick Lamar) and "All Night". One promotional single was released for the album: "Daddy Lessons" (featuring the Dixie Chicks). In April 2016, Beyoncé embarked on the Formation World Tour to promote the album. Several music publications included the album among the best of 2016, including Rolling Stone, which listed Lemonade at number one. As of December 2016, it has sold 1.52 million copies in the US,making it the 3rd best selling album of the year in the country. For the 59th Grammy Awards, Lemonade received

9 nominations, including Album of the Year, Best Urban Contemporary Album and Best Music Film. Its leading single "Formation" received nominations for Record of the Year, Song of

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the Year, and Best Music Video, while "Hold Up", "Don't Hurt Yourself" and "Freedom" were nominated in pop, rock and rap categories.

PIECE BY PEICE BY KELLY CLARKSON

"Piece by Piece" is a song by American singer Kelly Clarkson taken from her seventh studio album of the same name. She cowrote the track with its producer Greg Kurstin. A midtempo pop song about restoring someone's faith in love and family relationships, Clarkson promulgated "Piece by Piece" as a sequel to the song "Because of You" (2004) but with a "happy 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

ending". After a discussion with her sister about their family life, she introspectively co-wrote the song in a first-person narrative to her father, whose neglect of his family was used as a juxtaposition to her husband's unconditional love for her and their daughter, whom they both promised to never abandon. "Piece by Piece" was first released as the second promotional single from Piece by Piece by RCA Records on February 24, 2015. Upon its release, the title track has received praise from music critics, who commended lyrical content as one of the album's highlights. Clarkson premiered the song in a live acoustic performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and has showcased it on the set list of the Piece by Piece Tour. A re-worked version of the track was released to American hot adult contemporary radio stations on November 9, 2015, as the third and final single from the album. On February 25, 2016, Clarkson performed "Piece by Piece" in a live presentation on the fifteenth season of American Idol. The successful commercial and critical response of her performance on the program led RCA to issue an "Idol version" of the track on February 29, 2016. The combined versions of "Piece by Piece" allowed the song to debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number eight, becoming Clarkson's eleventh top ten hit and tying itself with "Never Again" (2007) as her highest debut on the chart. The track also attained the top position on three Billboard chartsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;primarily the Billboard Digital Songs chart, earning Clarkson her 100th Billboard number-one hitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a milestone in her musical career. Overseas, "Piece by Piece" became a top 40 hit in the music charts of Australia, Canada, and Scotland. Clarkson later 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

performed a reprise of the Idol version on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show on March 3, 2016. The Idol version is nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.

1. LA LA LAND La La Land is a 2016 American musical drama written and directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a musician and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. The film's title refers both to the city of Los Angeles and to the idiom for being out of touch with reality. Chazelle wrote the screenplay in 2010, but he did not find a studio willing to finance the production without changes to his design. Following the success of his 2014 film Whiplash, the 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

project was picked up by Summit Entertainment. La La Land premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2016, and was released theatrically in the United States on December 9, 2016. It has grossed $268 million worldwide against a production budget of $30 million. La La Land received overwhelming critical acclaim upon its release and is regarded as one of the best films of 2016. Critics praised Chazelle's screenplay and direction, Gosling and Stone's performances, Justin Hurwitz's musical score, and the film's musical numbers. At the 89th Academy Awards, the film is nominated for a record-tying fourteen Oscars (along with 1997's Titanic and 1950's All About Eve), including Best Picture, Best Director (Chazelle), Best Actor (Gosling), Best Actress (Stone) and two Best Original Songs, "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" and "City of Stars". The film also won in every category it was nominated for at the 74th Golden Globe Awards with a record-breaking seven wins. 2. DOCTOR STRANGE Doctor Strange is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the fourteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Scott Derrickson, who wrote the film with Jon Spaihts and C. Robert Cargill, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt, Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda Swinton. In Doctor Strange, surgeon 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

Stephen Strange learns the mystic arts from the Ancient One after a career-ending car accident. Various incarnations of a Doctor Strange film had been in development since the mid-1980s, until Paramount Pictures acquired the film rights in April 2005, on behalf of Marvel Studios. Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer were brought on board in June 2010 to write a screenplay. In June 2014, Derrickson and Spaihts were hired to direct and re-write the film, respectively. Cumberbatch was chosen for the eponymous role in December 2014, necessitating a schedule change to work around his other commitments. This gave Derrickson time to work on the script himself, for which he brought Cargill on to help. The film began principal photography in November 2015 in Nepal, before moving to the United Kingdom, and concluded in New York City in April 2016. Filming also occurred in Hong Kong. Doctor Strange held its world premiere in Hong Kong on October 13, 2016, and was released in the United States on November 4, 2016, in 3D and IMAX 3D. The film has grossed over $664 million worldwide, and was met with positive reviews from critics. It also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. 3. ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Alice Through the Looking Glass is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed by James Bobin, written by Linda Woolverton and produced by Tim Burton, Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd. It is based on the characters created by 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

Lewis Carroll and is the sequel to the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland. The film stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Matt Lucas, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen and features the voices of Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall and Alan Rickman, in his final film role. In the film, Alice comes across a magical looking glass that takes her back to Wonderland, where she finds that the Mad Hatter is acting madder than usual and wants to discover the truth about his family. Alice then travels through time (with the "Chronosphere"), comes across friends and enemies at different points of their lives, and embarks on a race to save the Hatter before time runs out. The film premiered in London on May 10, 2016, and was theatrically released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 27, 2016. It under-performed at the box office in comparison with the first film's gross

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1. DESMOND TUTU

Desmond Mpilo Tutu, CH (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town and bishop of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

Tutu's admirers see him as a great man who, since the demise of apartheid, has been active in the defence of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986;

the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987; the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007;and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. He has also

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compiled several books of his speeches and sayings

2. KOFI ANNAN

Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.

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Born in Kumasi, Annan went on to study economics at Macalester College, international relations from the Graduate Institute Geneva and management at MIT. Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office. He went on to work in several capacities at the UN Headquarters including serving as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping between March 1992 and December 1996. He was appointed as the

Secretary-General on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council, and later confirmed by the General Assembly, making him the first office holder to be elected from the UN staff itself. He was re-elected for a second term in 2001, and was succeeded as SecretaryGeneral by Ban Ki-moon on 1 January 2007. As the Secretary-General, Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy; worked to combat HIV, especially in Africa; and launched the UN Global Compact. He has been criticized for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for resignation

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after an investigation into the Oil-for-Food Programme. After leaving the UN, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development. In 2012, Annan was the UNâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to ongoing conflict there.Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regard to conflict resolution. In September 2016, Annan was appointed to lead a UN commission to investigate the Rohingya crisis.

3. CHINUA ACHEBE

Chinua Achebe ,born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958), often considered 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

his best,is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by his parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in SouthEastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a

scholarship to study medicine, but changed his studies to English literature at University College (now the University of Ibadan). He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, and began writing stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos. He gained worldwide attention for his novel, Things Fall Apart in the late 1950s; his later novels include No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Achebe wrote his novels in English and defended the use of English, a "language of colonisers", in African literature. In 1975, his lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" featured a famous criticism of Joseph 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

Conrad as "a thoroughgoing racist"; it was later published in The Massachusetts Review amid some controversy. When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe became a supporter of Biafran independence and acted as ambassador for the people of the new nation. The war ravaged the populace, and as starvation and violence took its toll, he appealed to the people of Europe and the Americas for aid. When the Nigerian government retook the region in 1970, he involved himself in political parties but soon resigned due to frustration over the corruption and elitism he witnessed. He lived in the United States for several years in the 1970s, and returned to the U.S. in 1990 after a car accident left him partially disabled.

A titled Igbo chieftain himself, Achebe's novels focus on the traditions of Igbo society, the effect of Christian influences, and the clash of Western and traditional African values during and after the colonial era. His style relies heavily on the Igbo oral tradition, and combines straightforward narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory. He also published a number of short stories, children's books, and essay collections.

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Upon his return to the United States in 1990, he began an eighteen-year tenure at Bard College as the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature. From 2009 until his death, he served as David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.

1. MARK ZUCKERBERG

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of Facebook. 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

His net worth is estimated to be US $53.6 billion as of 2017, ranking him the 5th richest person in the world.

Together with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, he launched Facebook from Harvard's dormitory rooms on February 4, 2004.The group then introduced Facebook to other college campuses. Facebook expanded rapidly, reaching one billion users by 2012. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg was involved in various legal disputes that were initiated by others in the group, who claimed a share of the company based upon their involvement during the development phase of Facebook. In December 2012, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced

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they would give the majority of their wealth over the course of their lives to "advancing human potential and promoting equality" in the spirit of The Giving Pledge. On December 1, 2015, they announced they would eventually give 99% of their Facebook shares (worth about $45 billion at the time) to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Since 2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year distinction. In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People.

2. EXXON MOBIL

Exxon Mobil Corporation is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas, which is a part of the Dallasâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Fort Worth metroplex. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, and was formed on November 30, 1999 by the merger of Exxon (formerly Standard Oil Company of New Jersey) and Mobil 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

(formerly the Standard Oil Company of New York). The world's 9th largest company by revenue, ExxonMobil is also the fifth largest publicly traded company by market capitalization. The company was ranked No. 9 globally in Forbes Global 2000 list in 2016. ExxonMobil was the second most profitable company in the Fortune 500 in 2014.

ExxonMobil is the largest of the world's Big Oil companies, or supermajors, with daily production of 3.921 million BOE (barrels of oil equivalent). In 2008, this was approximately 3 percent of world production, which is less than several of the largest state-owned petroleum companies.When ranked by oil and gas reserves, it is 14th in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with less than 1 percent of the total. ExxonMobil's reserves were 25.2 billion BOE at the end of 2013 and the 2007 rates of production were expected to last more than 14 years.With 37 oil refineries in 21 countries constituting a combined daily refining capacity of 6.3 million barrels (1,000,000 m3), ExxonMobil is the largest refiner in the world, a title that was also associated with Standard Oil since its incorporation in 1870. 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

ExxonMobil has been criticized for its slow response to cleanup efforts after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, widely considered to be one of the world's worst oil spills in terms of damage to the environment. Exxon Mobil has a history of lobbying for climate change denial and against the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

Both Exxon and Mobil were descendants of Standard Oil, established by John D. Rockefeller and partners in 1870 as the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. In 1882, it together with its affiliated companies was incorporated as the Standard Oil Trust with Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Standard Oil Company of New York as its largest companies. The

Anglo-American Oil Company was established in the United Kingdom in 1888. In 1890, Standard Oil, together with local ship merchants in Bremen established DeutschAmerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft (later: Esso A.G.).In 1891, a sale branch for the Netherlands and Belgium, American Petroleum Company, was established in Rotterdam.At the same year, a sale branch for Italy, SocietĂ Italo Americana pel Petrolio, was established in Venice. The Standard Oil Trust was dissolved under the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1892; however, it reemerged as the Standard Oil Interests. In 1893, the Chinese and the whole Asian kerosene market was assigned to Standard Oil Company of New York in order to improve trade with the Asian counterparts. In 1898, Standard Oil of New 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

Jersey acquired controlling stake in Imperial Oil of Canada. In 1899, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey became the holding company for the Standard Oil Interests. The anti-monopoly proceedings against the Standard Oil were launched in 1898.The reputation of Standard Oil in the public eye suffered badly after publication of Ida M. Tarbell's classic exposĂŠ The History of the Standard Oil Co. in 1904, leading to a growing outcry for the government to take action against the company. By 1911, with public outcry at a climax, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Standard Oil must be dissolved and split into 34 companies. Two of these companies were Jersey Standard ("Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey"), which eventually became Exxon, and Socony ("Standard Oil

Co. of New York"), which

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3. BILL GATES

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, and philanthropist. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and coauthored several books.

Since 1987, Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009, and has been since 2014.Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from US$40 billion to more than US$82 billion. Between 2013 and 2014, his wealth increased by US$15 billion. Gates is currently the richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$84.2 billion as of January 2017

Gates is one of the bestknown entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion that has in some cases been upheld by numerous court rulings. Later 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

in his career, Gates pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000. Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect for himself. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to parttime work, and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie. He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014, taking on a new post as

technology adviser to support the then newly appointed

CEO Satya Nadella.

1. A SEPARATION BY KATIE KITAMURA

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is the author of Gone to the Forest and The Longshot, both of which

were finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of a Lannan Residency Fellowship, Kitamura has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, BOM B, Triple Canopy, and is a regular contributor to Frieze.

Dread and lassitude twist into a spare and stunning portrait of a marital estrangement. At the end of this unsettling psychological novel, the narrator suggests that “perhaps wife and husband and marriage itself are only words that conceal much more unstable realities, more turbulent than can be contained in a handful of 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

syllables, or any amount of writing.” itamura’s third work of fiction builds into a hypnotic meditation on infidelity and the unknowability of one’s spouse. In precise and muted prose, the entire story unspools in the coolly observant mind of a young woman, a translator. She is estranged from Christopher Wallace, her “handsome and wealthy” husband of five years. He is a relentless adulterer; the narrator herself is now living with another man. The novel begins with a phone call from Isabella, a hostile and unpleasant mother-in-law, petulant that she can’t reach her only son and ignorant of the separation. Christopher has decamped to rural Greece, and Isabella insists her daughter-in-law leave England to go after him. Thinking it time to ask for a divorce, she agrees. In the remote fishing village of

Gerolimenas, there are grim portents: stray dogs, high unemployment, a landscape charred from a season of wildfires, and the hostility of a hotel receptionist who appears to have slept with Christopher. Each of 13 taut chapters turns the screw; at the beginning of the seventh there is a murder. Kitamura leaves it unsolved. Instead of delivering a whodunit, the author plucks a bouquet of unforeseen but psychologically piercing

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consequences. The narrator thinks, “One of the problems of happiness—and I’d been very happy, when Christopher and I were first engaged—is that it makes you both smug and unimaginative.” As this harrowing story ends, her life is diminished and her imagination is cruelly awake. A minutely observed novel of infidelity unsettles its characters and readers.

2. LIVE BY NIGHT BY DENNIS LEHANE

Live by Night is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane that was published in 2012. It won a 2013 Edgar Award for novel of the year. By 1926, Prohibition in the United States gives rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin,

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the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, defies his proper upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Ybor City, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.

When the novel begins, Joe is in the employ of one of Boston's most powerful mobsters, Tim Hickey. Joe and two friends knock off a gambling room located behind a speakeasy. Unbeknownst to them, the speakeasy belonged to Albert White, their boss's biggest rival. Emma Gould, a server in the room and White's mistress, catches Joe's attention. They begin an affair. Coughlin is later sent to Charlestown Penitentiary after a bank robbery goes awry. On the night of his arrest, the car Emma is traveling in crashes into a 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

river and she is presumed dead. Joe comes under the protection of Italian mobster Maso Pescatore while in prison. While Joe and his police captain father had a complicated relationship, Thomas agrees to do Pescatore's bidding to keep Joe safe in prison. The stress of these dealings give Thomas a fatal heart attack. Upon release, Pescatore sends Joe to Tampa, Florida, to solidify the family's rumrunning operation. Joe builds a highly successful business with his henchman, Dion. Still grieving for Emma, he encounters a fiery Cuban expatriate and revolutionary,

Graciela Corrales, upon arrival in Tampa and they become an intensely devoted couple. Graciela convinces Joe to mastermind the robbery of a weapons cache from an American warship to aid Fulgencio Batista's overthrow of Cuban strongman Gerardo Machado. While building his empire, Joe fights against the Ku Klux Klan. The local chief of the Klan is related to Figgis, the Tampa police chief. Joe blackmails Figgis with pornographic photographs of the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful daughter Loretta in a drug-addled state, whom Figgis had believed was working in Los Angeles, California, as an actress. Figgis's daughter later returns to Tampa and becomes a famous preacher. Loretta later reveals to Joe that she does not believe in God and is merely performing. Loretta later commits suicide and it is 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

revealed that she was sexually abused by her father. When Pescatore decides to replace Joe in Florida with his own dimwitted son, Albert White uses this opportunity to seek revenge against Joe, whom he blames for Emma's death. Joe escapes and regains control of his empire. Joe, his wife, Graciela, and their small son return to her homeland of Havana, Cuba, to live a quieter life. Dion becomes head of the family while Joe acts as an advisor. While in Cuba, Joe meets Emma outside the brothel where she works. She reveals she was involved in Joe's arrest. When Joe and Graciela return to the United States for a visit, Graciela is shot and killed by Figgis. Joe turns his back on organized crime to live a more mundane life with his son.

2. SING,UNBURIED SING BY JESMYN WARD

The searing and profound odyssey of a Southern family-by National Book Awardwinner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Wards's first

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novel since her National Book Award-winner, Salvage the Bones, she returns to Mississippi and the grand themes of her earlier work.

Confronting the realities of life in the rural South, Ward gives us an epochal story, a road novel through Mississippi's past and present that explores the bonds of family as tested by racism and poverty. Told in Ward's rich, lyrical language, this majestic novel is impossible to ignore. For Pop and Mam, their daughter Leonie, and her kids Jojo and Kayla, life is hard: Mam has cancer, Pop is preoccupied by working their small parcel of land, Leonie has a meth problem, and Jojo and Kayla seek love from their grandparents rather than their absent mother. Their lives are further 2017 JOIE JOURS AWARDS

complicated when Leonie gets the call from the white father of her children that he's up for parole. She quickly gathers her kids, recruits a friend for the ride, and embarks on the journey north to the Delta to collect Michael at Parchman Farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary. But no journey for a woman like Leonie through this state is without danger, and many things go wrong, sometimes dramatically. If the trip to Parchman is rocky, the return is worse, and arriving at home doesn't bring Leonie and her family the peace they seek. Instead, two battles ensue: one with Mississippi's present and

another with its horrific past. Raw, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Jesmyn Ward's novel grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of our national story, paying tribute to Faulkner and Morrison, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, all while showcasing the major talents of this singular American voice.

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