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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4 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.

Author, Chef

Kanika Linden

United Kingdom

Cambodian cookbook author and photographer based in London who documented Khmer recipes and ingredients for publication.

Oral historian, Photographer

Michael Edward Bell

United States

Folklorist and fieldworker who documented Cambodian community life in Lowell, Massachusetts for the Lowell Folklife Project.

Author, Photographer

Sharon May

American writer, editor and photographer who edited two anthologies of Cambodian writing for Manoa.

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