He married Ly Thirak, whose maiden name was Eam Kim Houy (穗金惠) and together they had 5 sons and daughters.
In the 1940s, while he was carrying his research at the Buddhist Institute, Éveline Porée-Maspéro called him to be a member of the Commission for the Study of the Cambodian Customs and Practises.
[1] He was one of the first contributors to the Kambuja suriyā, the first peer-reviewed Khmer journal of literary criticism.
[2] In 1958, he travelled to Soviet Union to attend the Afro-Asian Writers' Conference in Tashkent, which was an offshoot the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization in line with the non-aligned vision developed at the Bandung conference and which Prince Sihanouk supported.
As many of his generations, they were well read in Chinese, Vietnamese and even French literature though the connections of French Indochina: "what is important is that this Sino-Vietnamese literature made them painfully conscious of the lack of a similar output in the Cambodian language.