"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

 

Born in Takeo province, Cambodia in 1965, I am grateful to be alive. Currently, I am a public speaker, Cambodian classical dancer, writer, and aspiring screenwriter. I hold a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Oregon. I feel that one of my major contributions to the society of our world was my devotion as a Research Associate to the Khmer Adolescent Project, a major PTSD study on Cambodian youths who survived the Khmer Rouge era. It was conducted at Oregon Health Sciences University with the respectable Dr. William H. Sack, M.D., as the Principal Investigator, who was an exceptional boss, and is also known to me as Daddy-O.

 

Winner of the 2001 Oregon Book Award in Literary Nonfiction; Finalist for the 2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; Finalist for the 2001 Pen USA West Literary Award, and nominee for the 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Book Award. Two-time winner of the Oregon Literary Fellowship, awarded by the Literary Arts, Inc.

 

Dr. Mark Ashwill, Executive Director of the U.S.-Indochina Educational Foundation, established the Chanrithy Him Scholarship in my honor. "The fund raising goal is an endowment, or $20,000 per year. This scholarship was created in 2003 in honor and recognition of Chanrithy Him, author of the award-winning memoir, When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge. It celebrates Ms. Him's survival and life as testimony to the power of hope over despair, love over hate, and the victory of good over evil. The Chanrithy Him Scholarship will be awarded to a qualified and deserving woman from Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam who is committed in thought, word, and deed to social and economic justice in her society."

Inspired by When Broken Glass Floats, Ms. Anne-Gyrithe Bonne, Danish Film Director, profiles me in her international documentary film, entitled, The Will to Live, which also features Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Dr. Juan Almendares, a prominent medical doctor and human rights activist of Honduras. The film is supported by her Majesty Queen Margrethe and the Prince Henriks Foundation, the International Reconciliation Council for Torture Victims, the Danish Ministry of Education, the Danish section of Amnesty International, and other private foundations.

Chanrithy Him Scholarship - Touched and moved by When Broken Glass Floats, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kroeze established a $10,000 endowed scholarship in my honor to benefit students from the Pacific Northwest who attended Jamestown College during the academic year of 2002-2003. (Mr. Kroeze's grandfather, Dr. Barend Kroeze, was Jamestown College's legendary president from 1909 to 1946.)

 

Him, C., author. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge. Khmer Edition, University of Cambodia Press. (in press 2005)

Him, C., author. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge. Vietnamese edition, Phuong Nam Corp. (Spring 2005).

Him, C., author. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge. Swedish edition, Wahlstroms - Summer 2003.

Him, C., author. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge. Estonian edition, Sinisukk - Summer 2003.

Him, C., author. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge. Dutch edition, Tirion, Late 2001.

Him, C., author. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge. W.W. Norton. Hardback, April 17, 2000; Paperback April 30, 2001. New York and London.

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