Pira Sudham

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Pira Sudham (born 1942, Thai พีระ สุธรรม) is a writer from the Isan region of Thailand. He was born to a family of poor farmers in Na Pho, Buriram Province. At the age of fourteen he was sent to Bangkok to study, where he lived as a dek wat (a boy who lives in a temple and assists monks). He later went on to study at Chulalongkorn University, Auckland University and then Victoria University of Wellington. Pira Sudham was nominated for the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.[1]

[edit] Bibliography

  • Siamese Drama or Tales of Thailand (1983)
  • People of Esarn (1987)
  • Monsoon Country (1988)
  • The Force of Karma (2002)

As well as drawing on his own life, these works deal with the characters and circumstances of his fellow villagers.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pira Sudham : A voice from the grassroots of Thailand. Intute. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.

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