Soth Polin

Soth Polin was born on 9 February 1943 in Chroy Thmar, in Kampong Cham province, the great-grandson of the poet Nou Kan. Steeped in classical Khmer literature as well as Western philosophy, he had Saloth Sâr, the future Pol Pot, as his French teacher, and at twenty-two published a first novel that was a great success. A journalist, he founded the newspaper Nokor Thom with Sin Kim Suy, then went into exile in France in 1974, where he was a taxi driver before settling in California.

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• NovelL'AnarchisteSoth Polin · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature