Khmer books from 1960-1975 set for reprint

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Mon Mar 29, 2021 5:15 pm

Khmer books from 1960-1975 set for reprint
Nov Sivutha | Publication date 28 March 2021 | 22:00 ICT

The publication committee of the Khmer Writers’ Association is collecting copies of all of the Khmer-language publications printed between 1960 and 1975 in order to reprint selected works and make them available for distribution as a means of promoting national literacy in Cambodia.

Lek Chumnor, the director of Khmer Book Publishing and vice-president of the Khmer Writers’ Association, told The Post on March 28 that his association will first publish four books this year including a novel published in 1972 written by Im Chhum and the novel Mealea Duong Chet written by Nou Hach.

“The purpose of this publication is to disseminate outstanding [Khmer-language] works so the public can get to know them and learn from them. It’s also to promote and encourage literacy in Cambodia in a way that is broadly based on books written in a standardised [Khmer] language,” he said.

He said the books selected to be republished would depend on the quality of the writing and their overall merit as literature and that the reprinted books will be distributed through bookstores, public libraries and national institutions.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... et-reprint

nerdlinger · Post by **nerdlinger** » Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:17 pm

I recently started reading the English translation of Suon Sorin’s “A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land”, and holy crap it is absolutely awful on so many levels. It’s like a caricature of all the worst things a novelist could do.