Arts and media

Creators

Khmer and Cambodian diaspora writers, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, chefs and artists.

Watercolor of an artist studio with an easel, a film camera, a chapei lute and a typewriter
Illustration inspired by an arts school in Battambang.

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Loung Ung

A Cambodian American memoirist and activist whose trilogy traces survival under the Khmer Rouge and life afterward in the United States.

Chef Nak

A Cambodian chef and culinary author who documents Khmer home and royal cooking.

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30 creators

Author, Journalist

Tien Nguyen

United States

Los Angeles food writer and cookbook co-author who worked with Nite Yun on My Cambodia.

Author, Educator

Tracy Guan

United States

Children's book author and founder of Tangerine and Jade Press, publisher of Khmer-themed picture books.

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U Sam Oeur

United States

Cambodian poet and memoirist who survived the Khmer Rouge period and translated Walt Whitman into Khmer.

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Vaddey Ratner

United States

Cambodian American novelist whose fiction draws on her survival of the Khmer Rouge period.

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Vichet Chum

United States

Khmer American playwright and young adult novelist based in New York.

Author, Chef

Visoth Tarak Ouk

United States

Long Beach chef who founded Cambodian Restaurant Week and co-wrote a Cambodian cookbook and memoir.

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