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Loung Ung
Ung in 2008
Born
(1970-11-19) 19 November 1970 (age 53) Phnom Penh, Khmer Republic
Occupation
Author
lecturer
activist
Language
English
Nationality
Cambodian
Citizenship
United States
Alma mater
Saint Michael's College
Period
21st century (2000–present)
Genre
Human Rights
Notable works
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
Notable awards
Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
Relatives
Keav†, Geak†, Chou (sisters) Khouy, Kim, Meng (brothers)
Website
www.loungung.com
Loung Ung (Khmer: អ៊ឹង លួង; born 19 November 1970) is a Cambodian-American human-rights activist, lecturer and national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World from 1997 to 2003. She has served in the same capacity for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which is affiliated with the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.
Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Ung was the sixth of seven children and the third of four girls to Seng Im Ung and Ay Choung Ung. At the age of 10, she escaped from Cambodia as a survivor of what became known as "the Killing Fields" during the reign of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime. After being resettled as a refugee to United States, she eventually wrote two books which related to her life experiences from 1975 through 2003.[1]
^Reinherz, Adam. "Author and activist Loung Ung shares insider's look at Cambodian genocide". jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
LoungUng (Khmer: អ៊ឹង លួង; born 19 November 1970) is a Cambodian-American human-rights activist, lecturer and national spokesperson for the Campaign...
Daughter of Cambodia Remembers is a 2000 non-fiction book written by LoungUng, a Cambodian-American author and childhood survivor of Democratic Kampuchea...
Behind (2005) is a memoir written by a Cambodian-born American woman, LoungUng. Her previous memoir was First They Killed My Father. The memoir chronicles...
the People (film) First Indochina War First They Killed My Father – by LoungUng Son Sen Ta Mok Vietnam War Crimes against humanity under communist regimes...
Lon Nil Lon Nol's brother Lon Nol Lon Non Lon Nol's brother Long Boret LoungUng Maha Ghosananda Mam Nai Gen. Meas Sophea Meng Keo Pichenda Norodom Buppha...
directing the film, she co-wrote the screenplay with her longtime friend LoungUng, whose memoirs about the regime's child labor camps served as its source...
at UC Berkeley and Berkeley's first Cambodian-American faculty member LoungUng - author, speaker, Khmer Rouge survivor and activist against landmines...
McCormick's 2012 novel Never Fall Down. The genocide is also recounted by LoungUng in her memoir First They Killed My Father (2000). The book was adapted...
Fields The Killing Fields (Hollywood film) First They Killed My Father by LoungUng Enemies of the People (film) Atkinson, Carole. "Tuol Sleng and the Cambodian...
(2000) First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, LoungUng (2000) Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (2001) A Theory of Relativity, Jacquelyn...
neighborhood. Aside from personal memoirs of coming to America, such as those by LoungUng, a few books have been dedicated to studying the Cambodian American population...
political prison and internal political exile in Siberia under Tsarism. LoungUng, author of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers...
written by Angelina Jolie and LoungUng, based on Ung's memoir of the same name. Set in 1975, the film depicts 7-year-old Ung who is forced to be trained...
Celaya Django Django Reinhardt Reda Kateb First They Killed My Father LoungUng Sareum Srey Moch Bomb City Brian Deneke Dave Davis Darkest Hour Winston...
slavery Child labour Stress in early childhood Grace Akallo, Ugandan LoungUng, Cambodian Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean Calvin Graham, American Hagdobyeong...
Cambodian-based film First They Killed My Father, documenting the experiences of LoungUng, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge and directed by Oscar-winning actress Angelina...
the Atlanta Dream Julia Tuttle, businesswoman, the "mother of Miami" LoungUng, author; speaker; Khmer Rouge survivor; activist against landmines Lee...
struggles to overcome societal or cultural barriers. The writers are LoungUng (Cambodia), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), Manjushree Thapa (Nepal), Mona Eltahawy...
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (陳如蓮, 1974–), born in Singapore, novelist and memoirist LoungUng (1970–), born in Cambodia, author and activist Singapore Choo Hoey (朱暉/朱晖...
Nobel Peace Prize jointly with coordinator Jody Williams of the VVAF. LoungUng serves as National Spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World...
the dissolution of the Soviet System. Samuel Ullman – German-born poet LoungUng – a survivor of the Killing Fields of Cambodia, is an activist and author...
(published 2000), LoungUng's First They Killed My Father (2000), Oni Vitandham's On the Wings of a White Horse (2005) and Kilong Ung's Golden Leaf (2009)...
Bad Boy Story Hollywood Foreign Language Film Award Angelina Jolie and LoungUng – First They Killed My Father Hollywood Director Award Joe Wright – Darkest...
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