Rim Kin ( km, រីម គីន; 8 November 1911–28 January 1959) was a Cambodian writer, and one of the founders of Cambodian modern literature. He was the author of '' Sophat'' ( km, សូផាត, 1938), the first published novel in Cambodia to be written in prose rather than the customary verse form. It became a 1964 movie of the same name. In 1935, the weekly Cambodian newspaper ''Ratri Thnai Saur'' ( km, រាត្រីថ្ងៃសៅរ៍) was founded and it hosted the first modern serial stories of Kin. From 1955 through 1957, Kin was the first president of the

Khmer Writers' Association The Khmer Writers Association (KWA; km, សមាគមអ្នកនិពន្ធខ្មែរ, ), also known as the Association of Khmer Writers,Ollier, p. xv the Association des Ecrivains Khmers, or the Association of Cambodian Writers, wa ...

Partial works

* 1938, '' Sophat'' (រឿងសូផាត) * 1943, ''Samapheavi'' (សមាភាវី)

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1911 births 1959 deaths Cambodian male writers 20th-century novelists Cambodian novelists Male novelists 20th-century male writers 20th-century Cambodian writers {{Cambodia-writer-stub