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Nawuth Keat
Cambodian survivor of the Khmer Rouge period who told his life story in the memoir Alive in the Killing Fields.
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Nite Yun ណែត យុន
Cambodian American chef and restaurateur in San Francisco and author of the cookbook My Cambodia.
Author, Journalist
Patricia McCormick
American journalist and young adult novelist whose novel Never Fall Down is based on the life of Arn Chorn-Pond.
Author, Educator
Peuo Tuy
Khmer American spoken word poet and community organizer who helped found the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.
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Pin Yathay
Cambodian engineer and author of the Khmer Rouge survival memoir Stay Alive, My Son.
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Rithy Panh ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី
Rithy Panh is a Cambodian director, producer and author whose documentaries and features address the Khmer Rouge period and its aftermath.
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Roger Warner
American author and journalist who co-wrote Haing S. Ngor's autobiography.
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Sharon May
American writer, editor and photographer who edited two anthologies of Cambodian writing for Manoa.
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Sokunthary Svay
Khmer American poet, librettist and scholar who co-founded the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.
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Sorey Long
Cambodian cook and cookbook author who recorded her family's Khmer recipes for publication in French and English.
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Sue J. Kim
Professor of English who directs the Southeast Asian Digital Archive and its oral history collecting in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Thon Thavry
Cambodian author and publisher whose memoir A Proper Woman examines social expectations placed on Cambodian women.
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Tian Veasna
Cambodian-born graphic novelist in France whose Year of the Rabbit documents his family's experience of the Khmer Rouge period.
Author, Journalist
Tien Nguyen
Los Angeles food writer and cookbook co-author who worked with Nite Yun on My Cambodia.
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Tracy Guan
Children's book author and founder of Tangerine and Jade Press, publisher of Khmer-themed picture books.
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U Sam Oeur
Cambodian poet and memoirist who survived the Khmer Rouge period and translated Walt Whitman into Khmer.
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Vaddey Ratner
Cambodian American novelist whose fiction draws on her survival of the Khmer Rouge period.
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Vickie In
Credited author of a bilingual Khmer and English board book retelling the story of Moni Mekhala.
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Visoth Tarak Ouk
Long Beach chef who founded Cambodian Restaurant Week and co-wrote a Cambodian cookbook and memoir.
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