Nou Hach Literary Association

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.

Nou Hach Literary Project publishes a literary journal annually and holds a writer’s conference with speakers and literary awards to honour and support modern writers in Cambodia. Underlying this effort has been the intent to foster greater literacy rates and to develop the intellectual infrastructure of civil society. They sponsor creative writing workshops at schools in the outlying provinces and disseminate the Nou Hach Literary Journal to high school teachers to fill these two objectives.

The Nou Hach Literary Project also organises writers’ workshops with foreign writers as guest instructors and they do English translation projects of Khmer poetry and short fiction.