Soth Polin
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Soth Polin (born in 1943 in Kompong Cham province) is a Khmer novelist. He came from a middle-class, intellecutal family, and grew up speaking both khmer and french. A strongly influenced by Sartre, Nietzsche and Freud, as well as Buddhism, A Meaningless Life was his first novel and was very popular by the time of its publication. Numerious novels, short stories, philosophical tales followed, among them The Adventurer, What ever you order me... I'll do it, The death of Love,... Soth Polin was part of an active community of writers before the Khmer Rouge takeover. In the late 1960 s, when he founded the newspaper and publishing house of Nokor Thom, he was a militant nationalist who was both anti-Sihanouk and anti-Communist. Through the publishing house, he supported the politics of Lon Nol before finally distancing himself and taking refuge in France in 1974 . Later he and his two sons moved to the United States.
