Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. In both of her memoirs, Ung wrote in the first person and, for the most part, in the present tense, describing the events and circumstances as if they were unfolding before the reader's eyes: "I wanted to be there." ( From Wikipedia.Now a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie. It covers the period of 1980 until 2003, and HarperCollins published it in 2005. with and without her family, and the experiences of her surviving family members in Cambodia during the ensuing warfare between Vietnamese troops and the Khmer Rouge. Her second memoir, Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind, chronicles her adjustment to life in the U.S. First They Killed My Father has subsequently been published in twelve countries in nine languages. Published in the United States in 2000, it became a national bestseller, and in 2001 it won the award for "Excellence in Adult Non-fiction Literature" from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians' Association. If you had been living in Cambodia during this period, this would be your story too." Though these events constitute my own experience, my story mirrors that of millions of Cambodians. This is a story of survival: my own and my family's. "From 1975 to 1979-through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor-the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population. Ung's first memoir, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, details her experiences in Cambodia from 1975 until 1980: After emigrating to the United States and adjusting to her new country, she wrote two books which related her life experiences from 1975 through 2003.
At ten years of age, 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. Her actual birthdate is unknown the Khmer Rouge destroyed many of the birth records of the inhabitants of cities in Cambodia. Ung was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the sixth of seven children and the third of four girls, to Sem Im Ung and Ay Chourng Ung. Between 19 she served in the same capacity for the "International Campaign to Ban Landmines", which is affiliated with the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. Loung Ung is a Cambodian American human-rights activist, an internationally-recognized lecturer, and the national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World. She is the author of Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind, and she lives with her husband in Ohio. Loung Ung is a national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World, a program of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. Currently-lives near Cleveland, Ohio USA.Awards-Excellence in Non-Fiction Award,.
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