Hak Chhay Hok (Khmer: ហាក់ ឆៃហុក, 1944–1975) was born in the province of Battambang. He was one of the most prolific and the most popular Cambodian writer during the 1960s and the 1970s. He wrote fifty novels, collaborated with a number of journals, and occasionally worked for the cinema. His best-known works include O Fatal Smoke, Drifting with Karma, The Lightning of the Magic Sword, In the Shadow of Angkor, and Oh! Sorry, Dad!. A few months after the fall of Phnom Penh, he published Little Manual for the Dissipation of Misery. He was disappeared by the Khmer Rouge.
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1944 Battambang Province, Cambodia
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1975 (aged 30)
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