Translating Archaic Texts

Here you will find tales of how I became famous in Vietnam for studying an epic 19th-century piece that was written in an archaic language almost everyone in Vietnam is illiterate in. Vietnamese National Television made a documentary about me. Now, in Cambodia, I focus on translating literary works related to The Reamker. I am translating these into English and contemporary Khmer. The latter is cast in a language accessible enough so that a Cambodian high school student can read it (as opposed to the literary speak which is far removed). I’m currently writing a dictionary of the literary nomenclature I encounter, with an emphasis on dissecting words of Sanskrit origin.