Asia
Cambodia
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Cambodia is represented in the reader ranking by Loung Ung, who was born in Phnom Penh in 1970. Her memoir “First They Killed My Father”, published in 2000, recounts her childhood under the Khmer Rouge, from 1975 until her escape from the country in 1980. In 2017 Angelina Jolie directed a Khmer-language film based on the book.
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