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  • EpicReamkerរាមកេរ្តិ៍Anonymous · 1600The Indian epic of Rama, known in Cambodia from the seventh century and sculpted at Angkor, rewritten in Khmer verse in a Buddhist spirit.Literature
  • Poetryល្បើកអង្គរវត្តAnonymous · 1620not translated into EnglishAfter the capture of Longvek by the Siamese in 1594, the court of Oudong seeks to refound its power on the prestige of Angkor.Literature
  • PoetryTum TeavទុំទាវPreah Botumthera Som · 1915A love story that has circulated in Cambodia since at least the middle of the nineteenth century, put into verse by a monk.Literature
  • PoetryCpāplpoekthmīKrom Ngoy · 1932not translated into EnglishA collection of moral lessons in verse by the popular poet of Cambodia, singer at the court of Sisowath.Literature
  • Novelទឹកទន្លេសាបKim Hak · 1939not translated into EnglishOne of the very first Khmer novels, published in a review in 1939, before the famous Sophat.Literature
  • NovelសូផាតRim Kin · 1941not translated into EnglishIn the thirties, the novel in prose was only just emerging in Cambodia, where people still wrote mostly in verse.Literature
  • Novelកុលាបប៉ៃលិនNhok Them · 1943not translated into EnglishUnder the French protectorate, the Khmer prose novel is in its beginnings, and its author comes out of the world of the pagodas.Literature
  • Novelផ្កាស្រពោនNou Hach · 1947not translated into EnglishIn the time of the protectorate, the marriage arranged by the parents remains the rule in Cambodian families.Literature
  • NovelA New Sun Rises Over the Old Landព្រះអាទិត្យថ្មីរះលើផែនដីចាស់Suon Sorin · 1961The great bestseller of Sihanouk's Cambodia, the life of a poor man of Phnom Penh before and after independence.Literature
  • Feature filmApsaraអប្សរាNorodom Sihanouk · 1966In the sixties, the prince who governs Cambodia himself makes films to give his country another image.Cinema
  • Feature filmThe Snake King's Wifeពស់កេងកងTea Lim Koun · 1970On the eve of the civil war, Khmer cinema, then flourishing, draws its greatest successes from the legends of the country.Cinema
  • Feature filmAn Aeuy Srei Anអនអើយស្រីអនLy Bun Yim · 1972As war spreads through the country, the Khmer cinema of the golden age is still making its musical comedies.Cinema
  • NovelL'AnarchisteSoth Polin · 1980not translated into EnglishBetween the two narratives, a blank page: that of Democratic Kampuchea, which the author, in exile in Paris from 1974, watches from afar.Literature
  • Feature filmShadow of Darknessស្រមោលអន្ធការYvon Hem · 1987Ten years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian cinema is reborn by telling the story of their years in power itself.Cinema
  • Feature filmRice Peopleអ្នកស្រែRithy Panh · 1994After the genocide and two decades of war, a filmmaker returned from exile shoots in Cambodia, in Khmer, with a Cambodian crew.Cinema
  • PoetrySacred VowsU Sam Oeur · 1998After the genocide, a poet trained in the United States reconstructs from memory the verses he had destroyed in order to survive.Literature