[4] Its authors try to promote a new direction to literature, introducing new themes, such as the abandonment of morality incompatible with modern life; developing new genres, such as theatre nouveau;[7] and providing translations, such as The Arabian Nights, as part of a "didactic and diverse" genre.
[5] In the 2000s, the organization's focus has shifted; it provides training programs for writing poetry and film screenplays.
[13] Destroyed under Democratic Kampuchea, the association was re-established in 1993 by two former members, You Bo and Sou Chamran, with King Norodom Sihanouk serving as honorary president.
[4] Pal Vannariraks, a female Cambodian writer of social and sentimental novels, won first prize in the 1989 Seventh of January literature competition.
Some of the works, characterized as being interpretations by "modernist intellectuals", may not represent the view of all Cambodian Buddhists.