Siburapha

Kulap Saipradit, known as Siburapha, was born in Bangkok, the son of a seamstress, and studied at Debsirin School. A journalist, he founded the Suphapburut group in 1929, edited newspapers, presided over the Thai journalists' association and, with his wife, translated Maugham, Chekhov and Gorky. Arrested on 10 November 1952 with more than a hundred opponents, he was released in February 1957. He was in China at the time of the 1958 coup and stayed there, teaching Thai literature in Beijing, where he died on 16 June 1974.

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• NovelBehind the Paintingข้างหลังภาพSiburapha · 1937Literature