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OUM Suphany - novelist and poet (Cambodia)

Fellow of the Sylt Foundation
Oum Suphany is one of the authors reading during the Sylt Foundation's Transformation and Identity Programme in Phnom Penh/Cambodia, August 2017.

Ms OUM Suphany is an award winning novelist and poet. She has written over fifty roman novels, poems, short stories, film script, plays, and songs. Two of her novels ‘Under the Drops of Falling Rain’ and ‘Who is My Mother?’ had translated into English and English and French respectively. She had kept writing her diary during the Khmer Rouge time despites knowing that that practice could mean death. Ms Suphany has been invited to various conferences and festivals.