Loung Ung
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Loung Ung

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Loung Ung is a bestselling author, human rights activist and speaker. Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, she was five when the Khmer Rouge took the city in 1975. She survived as a child soldier and came to Vermont as a refugee in 1980.

Her memoir First They Killed My Father is read in classrooms around the world and was followed by Lucky Child and Lulu in the Sky. It became a Netflix film directed by Angelina Jolie, from a screenplay she and Loung co-wrote, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She is now bringing her story to a new generation in a graphic novel, Spirits of Survival, woven with Cambodian mythology.

Loung served as national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World and received the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal. She has returned to Cambodia more than 50 times and lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, Mark.
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