Download Poet Kosal Khiev has just return from representing Cambodia at the cultural event of this year’s Olympics. He was chosen to attend from 6,000 poets nominated from around the world.
Kosal spent most of his life as a refugee in the United States. His family fled the Khmer Rouge when he was a teenager.
It was there – in US prisons – that he learnt poetry. He was deported to Cambodia last year and now writes poems to inspire young Cambodians.
Khortieth Him has his story.