Author · Cambodia
Rim Kin
Died in 1959
Rim Kin was born on 8 November 1911 in Phnom Penh. He lost his father at the age of seven and was raised by an uncle who was a monk, and learned to read at the pagoda before entering the French school, then the Sisowath college. Having become a schoolteacher, he wrote serials for the press and plays, later film scripts, and translated French works into Khmer. From 1955 to 1957 he was the first president of the Association of Khmer Writers, and died at the end of January 1959.