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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5 creators

Journalist, Oral historian

Dith Pran ឌិត ប្រន

United States

Cambodian photojournalist and interpreter who collected and edited survivor testimony from the Khmer Rouge period.

Filmmaker, Journalist

Janet Gardner

United States

Janet Gardner is a documentary director and producer whose films include Dancing Through Death, about Cambodian classical dance.

Author, Journalist

Patricia McCormick

United States

American journalist and young adult novelist whose novel Never Fall Down is based on the life of Arn Chorn-Pond.

Author, Educator

Putsata Reang

United States

Cambodian American journalist and memoirist, author of Ma and Me.

Author, Journalist

Tien Nguyen

United States

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

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This page was last edited on 2 October 2026, at 01:35.