Rim Kin

Rim Kin
រីម គីន
Born(1911-11-08)November 8, 1911
Phnom Penh, French Cambodia
DiedJanuary 28, 1959(1959-01-28) (aged 47)
Cambodia
OccupationAuthor
Writing career
Notable workSophat (1938)

Rim Kin (Khmer: រីម គីន; 8 November 1911–28 January 1959) was a Cambodian writer, and one of the founders of Cambodian modern literature. He was the author of Sophat (Khmer: សូផាត, 1938), the first published novel in Cambodia to be written in prose rather than the customary verse form. It became a 1964 movie of the same name. In 1935, the weekly Cambodian newspaper Ratri Thnai Saur (Khmer: រាត្រីថ្ងៃសៅរ៍) was founded and it hosted the first modern serial stories of Kin. From 1955 through 1957, Kin was the first president of the Khmer Writers' Association.

Partial works

References

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