Soth Polin
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Soth Polin is a Khmer
writer. His first novel, A Meaningless Life, was published in 1964. He also founded the Nokor Thom (Great Nation) newspaper, which was published from the late 1960s until 1974. Polin moved to France in 1974 and later to the United States.
Khmer people
Khmer people are the predominant ethnic group in Cambodia, accounting for approximately 90% of the 14.8 million people in the country. They speak the Khmer language, which is part of the larger Mon–Khmer language family found throughout Southeast Asia...
writer. His first novel, A Meaningless Life, was published in 1964. He also founded the Nokor Thom (Great Nation) newspaper, which was published from the late 1960s until 1974. Polin moved to France in 1974 and later to the United States.
External links
- Tomoko Okada, Modern Short Stories, Cambodian Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies - introduces 4 writers included in a Japanese publication Modern Cambodian Short Stories (The Daido Life Foundation, 2001)
- Thomas Beller, The debris of the visible, Cambodia Daily, Aug 26, 2006 - review of Stewart and May (ed.) In the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing From Cambodia, University of Hawaii Press (2004), ISBN 0824828496 which includes Soth Polin's 1969 short story Communicate, They Said" and an interview with him
- "An Interview with Soth Polin" by Sharon May