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Background

The Nou Hach Literary Association is an apolitical, non-profit organization established to promote creative writing in Cambodia. Since its inception in 2001, the Project team has demonstrated fiscal responsibility and success in promoting literature and literacy in Cambodia. We publish the only journal of modern literature in the country, which is now used by many high-school teachers.

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Mission

The Nou Hach Literary Project was initiated in 2002 with the objective of supporting the development of modern Cambodian literature, which has yet to recover from the excesses of the Khmer Rouge era. We annually publish a literary journal and hold a writers conference with speakers and literary awards to honor and support modern writers in Cambodia. Underlying this effort has been the intent to foster greater literacy and to develop the intellectual infrastructure in civil society. We sponsor creative writing workshops at schools of pedagogy in the outlying provinces and disseminate the Nou Hach Literary Journal to high school teachers to fill these two objectives. We have an apolitical, inclusive policy as advocates for freedom of literary expression.

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Project Summary

1) Nou Hach Literary Conference 2) Nou Hach Literary Journal in electronic form 3) Writer’s Workshops 4) English translation projects of Khmer poetry and short fiction.