Author, Chef
Chantha Nguon
Cambodian memoirist and cook who reconstructs family Khmer recipes alongside an account of exile and return.
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Chef Nak ចុងភៅណាក់
Cambodian chef and culinary author who documents and revives Khmer home and royal cooking.
Author, Educator
Chheng Phon ឆេង ផុន
Cambodian dramatist and educator who rebuilt the country's arts schools and performing arts repertoire after the Khmer Rouge period.
Author, Filmmaker
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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Thon Thavry
Cambodian author and publisher whose memoir A Proper Woman examines social expectations placed on Cambodian women.
Author, Educator
Kim Echlin
Canadian novelist whose novel The Disappeared is set in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge period.
Author, Chef
Sorey Long
Cambodian cook and cookbook author who recorded her family's Khmer recipes for publication in French and English.
Author, Visual artist
Tian Veasna
Cambodian-born graphic novelist in France whose Year of the Rabbit documents his family's experience of the Khmer Rouge period.
Author, Educator
David Smyth
British scholar of Thai and Cambodian who wrote the Routledge Colloquial Cambodian course.
Author, Chef
Kanika Linden
Cambodian cookbook author and photographer based in London who documented Khmer recipes and ingredients for publication.
Author, Educator
Anthony Veasna So
Cambodian American fiction writer and essayist whose work portrays Khmer American life in California's Central Valley.
Author, Educator
Bunkong Tuon
Cambodian American poet and novelist who teaches English at Union College.
Author, Educator
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Asian American studies scholar who analysed Cambodian American memory work in film, literature, rap and performance.
Author
Chanda Ouk Wolf
Cambodian American children's book author whose picture book connects Cambodian American families to the donut-shop trade.
Author, Oral historian
Chanrithy Him
Cambodian American memoirist and speaker who survived the Khmer Rouge period as a child.
Author, Visual artist
Chath pierSath
Cambodian American poet and painter who divides his time between a Massachusetts farm and Cambodia.
Author, Educator
Christine Su
Southeast Asian studies scholar and editor who founded the Khmer Generations Project and edits and writes books on Khmer diaspora life.
Author, Educator
Christoph Strobel
Historian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories of the city's immigrant communities.
Author, Educator
Erik W. Davis
American scholar of Buddhism and professor of religious studies at Macalester College whose research focuses on Cambodia.
Author, Educator
Franklin E. Huffman
American linguist of Southeast Asian languages who wrote the standard Yale series of Cambodian language textbooks and readers.
Author, Educator
George Chigas
Scholar of Cambodian literature and culture who recorded oral histories and photographs of Cambodian American life in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Haing S. Ngor ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ
Cambodian physician, actor and memoirist whose autobiography recounts his survival of the Khmer Rouge period.
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Kim DePaul
Editor and nonprofit director who co-edited a collection of Cambodian survivor memoirs.
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Linda Crew
American novelist whose young adult novel Children of the River follows a Cambodian refugee teenager in Oregon.
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