Kampoon Boontawee

Kampoon Boontawee was born into a farming family in the village of Sai Mun, in today's Yasothon province, in Isan. He was in turn the leader of a troupe of dancers, a day labourer, a rickshaw driver, a schoolteacher, then a prison guard, and contributed to the weekly Fa Muang Thai. The first Thai winner of the Southeast Asian Writers Award, in 1979, named a National Artist in 2001, he died in 2003.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelA Child of the NortheastลูกอีสานKampoon Boontawee · 1976Literature