Pira Sudham
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Pira Sudham Thai
พีระ สุธรรม) is a writer
from the Isan
Region of Thailand
. He was born to a family of poor rice farmers in Napo Village, Buriram Province. At the age of fourteen he left his home village for Bangkok to become a servant to Buddhist monks in a monastery where he also attended a secondary school. Later he entered Triam Udom High School before gaining a place at Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. He won a New Zealand Government scholarship to read English Literature at Auckland University and then Victoria University of Wellington, where his first story was published by New Zealand's leading literary quarterly Landfall. Since then Pira Sudham has been writing short stories, poems and novels in English. He has not produced any literary works in the Thai language.
Thai alphabet
Thai script , is used to write the Thai language and other, minority, languages in Thailand. It has forty-four consonants , fifteen vowel symbols that combine into at least twenty-eight vowel forms, and four tone marks ....
พีระ สุธรรม) is a writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
from the Isan
Isan
Isan is the northeastern region of Thailand. It is located on the Khorat Plateau, bordered by the Mekong River to the north and east, by Cambodia to the southeast and the Prachinburi mountains south of Nakhon Ratchasima...
Region of Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
. He was born to a family of poor rice farmers in Napo Village, Buriram Province. At the age of fourteen he left his home village for Bangkok to become a servant to Buddhist monks in a monastery where he also attended a secondary school. Later he entered Triam Udom High School before gaining a place at Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. He won a New Zealand Government scholarship to read English Literature at Auckland University and then Victoria University of Wellington, where his first story was published by New Zealand's leading literary quarterly Landfall. Since then Pira Sudham has been writing short stories, poems and novels in English. He has not produced any literary works in the Thai language.