Neang Kakey

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Neang Kakey (Khmer: រឿងនាងកាកី) is a Khmer sāstrā lbaeng tale and the best-known work composed as a melodrama in verse by future King of Cambodia Ang Duong[1] in 1815 during the time he resided at the Royal Court in Thailand.[2] The novel became a classic in modern post-Independence Cambodia and was incorporated in the curriculum for Khmer high schools.[3]

  1. ^ Dingwall, Alastair (1994). Traveller's Literary Companion to South-east Asia. In Print. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-873047-25-5.
  2. ^ Jacobs, Judith Jacob; Smyth, David (2013-11-05). Cambodian Linguistics, Literature and History: Collected Articles. Routledge. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-135-33866-4.
  3. ^ Theam, Bun Srun (1981). Cambodia in the Mid-nineteenth Century: A Quest for Survival, 1840-1863 (PDF). Australian National University. p. 133.