Vaddey Ratner

Vaddey Ratner is a Cambodian-American author of literary fiction novels. She is a Khmer Rouge genocide survivor and a war refugee. Vaddey is a New York Times bestselling author for the novel In the Shadow of the Banyan . The novel was a finalist for multiple prestigious awards, was selected for the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read program 2015-2016. Her books have been translated into twenty languages.