My Harrowing Escape from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and How That Led to a Friendship with Angelina Jolie Loung Ung talks about her journey that led to her memoir and now a film directed by Jolie ...

Catch the versatile Loung Ung Sunday afternoon in a marque talk at the Cleveland Public Library downtown. The activist and memoir author has observed much traveling the world.

Ung, who lives in Cleveland, was in Los Angeles recently promoting her second memoir, “Lucky Child.” She told the story of her family’s ordeal in Pol Pot’s Cambodia in her previous book ...

In 1975, Loung Ung was just 5 years old, living with her family in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh where her dad worked in the government. That year the communist Khmer Rouge regime came to power.

Angelina Jolie and Loung Ung are sitting in a conference room in the confines of Netflix’s shiny new Hollywood offices.

Readers of Loung Ung’s first book about surviving the Khmer Rouge years in Cambodia, “First They Killed My Father,” may wonder how the sequel could match the intensity and drama of that ...

First They Killed My Father Loung Ung talked about her and her family’s experiences during the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. She spoke on the brutality of … February 3, 2000 ...

The childhood of Loung Ung was heartbreakingly different. Until she was 5, Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children with a beautiful mother and adored father. In April, 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer ...

On a September afternoon in 1995 just outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Loung Ung listened during a memorial service as a monk read off the names of 30 of her relatives killed during Pol Pot’s 1975 ...

Separated from her family and trained as a child soldier, Loung Ung's defiant spirit helped her survive Pol Pot’s regime, which killed nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population. Show more In ...

First They Killed My Father Loung Ung talked about her and her family’s experiences during the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. She spoke on the brutality of… ...