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  A2Z Pattaya - Pira Sudham, Thai Author of Books in English
Pira Sudham's novel, Monsoon Country, is set in Thailand, England and Germany to convey the cultural tension between the East and the West, the clashes between the new powers and the old values covering the span of 25 years of the socio-economic and political changes occurring in Thailand.
This is a full-length novel, written in English by Pira Sudham, a Thai born of peasant parents in Thailand's underprivileged northeast.
Siamese Drama is Pira Sudham's collection of remarkably moving tales of the socio-economic changes occurring in Thailand, of cultural tensions between the East and the West, and of clashes between the new powers and the old values.
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 Monsoon Country Project - Visit the project
The Pira Sudham Estate, set up in 1988, is mostly funded by Pira out of his own income from rice farms and other properties and from the royalties of his books.
His aim, as he put it, is to improve the villagers' living conditions in any way possible including the improvement of water reservoirs, and the supply of plants and young fruit trees to villagers to grow on their own land as well as providing rice fields and buffaloes to landless farmers.
Pira collects from time to time bags of clothes from homes in Bangkok to be given to the poor in his district.
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Sudham took me to meet Tim’s wife and children at home in Satuk, where the Pira Canning Sudham Estate also extended assistance to the widow and her four children.
I learned also that in his heart he cares very much for the poor and very much against the injustices in the society, the suffering of the majority of the people, and the murder of the brave and idealistic men.
To combat evil and survive, Pira Canning Sudham must have patience, prudence and shrewdness; he resorts to using disguises and employs all the surviving tactics he knows.
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 bookideas.com: Monsoon Country by Pira Sudham
This is the novel that earned Pira Sudham his nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
As in others of his works, he writes in English, which is a language he is able to command with fluency and sensitivity but which acts as a barrier to understanding to the people about whom he is most often concerned.
Pira is concerned with both the mental crippling that the effect of under-development and poverty has had on the Isaan people and the potentially negative impacts of development when it does arrive.
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 Book Reviews
Pira Sudham is a native of Isarn who by his own efforts acquired an education and emerged from the deepest poverty to being nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Pira Sudham has also chosen not to write his stories in Thai as he obviously does not feel that the Thai nation at large has helped Isarn or ever will.
Pira Sudham does not just criticise political authority but also goes for other groups that he perceives as perpetrators of Isarn oppression.
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 Amazon.com: Reviews for Monsoon Country: Books: Pira Sudham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The doubt over whether this violent act is necessary, or wise, defines the personal journey of Prem, a young Siamese exile, as he must confront his own past as well as his nation's to define his own place in a world where West and East meet uneasily at best.
Sudham shows keen understanding of a sharp narative and insight into both Thai and Western culture.
Sudham managed to weave a simple story of one young life into the vastness of the wall between Western and Siam culture.
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 Pattaya Mail - Pattaya's First English Language Newspaper
Pira Sudham is an interesting man in himself, coming from the Esarn region of Thailand, and he is able to write with accuracy of the plight of the disadvantaged from that area.
He also writes with his heart on his sleeve, and it is possible to see Pira Sudham himself through the words ascribed to one of the principal characters, Prem Surin.
The word pictures painted by Pira Sudham are powerful enough to stir the reader to wish for action and justice for the oppressed.
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 Amazon.com: Monsoon Country: Books: Pira Sudham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Pira Sudham was born in a small remote village in northeast Thailand.
It is an intensely personal journey as well; Pira Sudham is a poet, and as poets do writes from a well of inspiration drawn from his own experiences and observations.
Sudham managed to weave a simple story of one young life into the vastness of the wall between Western and Siam culture.
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 ABAC Journal September-December, 1999
The other writer Pira Sudham, who hails from the poorest part of Thailand, the Northeastern plains, discovered poetry and his love for English as a young boy minding the buffaloes in the fields.
Pira Sudham is a Thai writer who writes entirely in English, and in a deceptively easy style, conjures up in his novel, Monsoon Country, a picture of rural Thailand where people depend on the seasonal rain to eke out a living by working on the land.
The way Pira Sudham has structured the narrative along a significant time frame spanning March 1954 to July 1980 is indicative of the deep underlying meaning of the novel.
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 bookideas.com: The Force of Karma by Pira Sudham
Pira Sudham is a Thai writer from the Isaan region, which is the poorest part of Thailand and one which has suffered perhaps more than most from the corruption and environmental destruction inflicted upon the country.
From the sale of children into factory sweatshops or brothels to the forced removal of people from their homes to accommodate new eucalyptus plantations that will poison the land, Pira Sudham has been a faithful and compassionate witness to the trials and tribulations of his people.
Sudham’s intention is to write for other people, to demonstrate and explain the nature of Thailand (or Siam, as he prefers) and the Thai and Lao people of Isaan.
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 Monsoon Country by Pira Sudham - The Voice of the Esarn
The novel that caused Pira Sudham to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Much like Pira's own life it follows a poor farmer's son from the North-East to Bangkok and as an overseas student in England.
Born to poor farming family in Napo, Burirum province, in 1942, Pira traveled to Bangkok to become a temple boy, a servant to the monks, at the age of 14.
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 Shadowed Country by Pira Canning Sudham
Sudham suggests there is a link between the demise of the Marquess and the ignoble birth of an infant in a poor and remote Isan village.
Pira Canning Sudham cunningly exploits a belief in the force of karma and harsh social condition to reveal the horror and magnitude of injustice and corruption in the society that is 'rotten at the core, to fall eventually on its own accord'.
Pira Canning Sudham admirably deals with such stark, gross or painful subject matters with a poetic narrative that has become one of the most remarkable writings of modern literature.
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 ISAN area > Famous figures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Despite the threat of the loggers and influential land speculators, he did declare the forest a meditation centre and a religious sanctuary.
The Thai writer Pira Sudham is coming from a poor area near Buriram.
Pira Sudham has been nominated for the literature Nobel Prize.
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 Books About Thailand - Thailand Forum
By the way, Pira Sudham's books are good accounts of life in Isaan (with the exception of Force of Kharma) and realistic sketches of its people by an author who's first langauge is not English, but Thai.
Pira Sudham's books have become the source of much debate on this thread.
Pira's books were aimed at English speaking farangs in Thailand and overseas who do not have access to Thai society and culture.
www.thaivisa.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=55544&st=90   (1622 words)

  
 Pattaya Mail - Vol. XIII No. 13 - Friday April 1 - April 7, 2005 Books - Movies - Music
Pira became a temple boy when he was 14 years old and sold artefacts to tourists to put himself through university.
The word pictures painted by Pira Canning Sudham are powerful enough to stir the reader to wish for action and justice for the oppressed.
The review copy came directly from Pira Sudham and I am honoured that Pira Canning Sudham feels that I have enough of an open mind to assimilate the message that runs through his writings.
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 directopedia : Directory : Arts : Literature : Authors : S : Sudham, Pira
Thai novelist Pira Canning Sudham is the international voice of the forgotten people of the northeast of Thailand.
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 Napo, Buriram province.
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 Lesson 3
Pira Sudham(1942---) is a leading English language writer in Thailand.
He was born to a poor family in rural Esarn, northeast of the country.
Pira sudham never forgets Esarn, where he experienced poverty and injustices in his early years which became the background for many of his short stories and novels.
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 Pira Sudham Authors and Writers Thailand
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A novel by Pira Sudham set in Thailand, England and Germany to convey the cultural tension between the East and the West, the clashes between the new powers and the old values
Pira Sudham's sequel novel to Monsoon Country carries on the saga to cover Thailand's tumultuous years of the economic crisis, the political upheavals and the massacre of May 1992
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 Chiangmai Mail - Vol. V No. 1 - Saturday December 31 - January 6, 2006   Book-Movies-Music
This latest book is more of an ‘expanded’ anthology, which author Pira says is the result of 50 years experience, writing and re-writing.
Pira Canning Sudham scores because his accounts are by a Thai, from the inside.
Having been born in Napo, a small village in Buriram province, he tells it as it really is. The mind numbing education system and the dirt poor farmers.
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 bookideas.com: Tales of Thailand by Pira Sudham
Just like the situation faced by migrants on the fringes of Thailand and Thai society, the poor are not protected by the central state but are instead subject to the vagaries of local power wielders.
The urgency, the bitterness and the need for justice are plain to see in his intentions for his work and in the work itself but, as he is a writer of fiction then it is as an author that Pira Sudham should be judged.
Unfortunately, Pira Sudham writes at a snail’s pace and although his Estate work in providing resources and help to impoverished local people is of inestimable value, it would serve the cause of Thai literature more if he were able to produce a little more.
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 Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: S: Sudham, Pira
Pira Sudham: A true voice from Esarn - Information about the Thai author.
Pira Sudham: Stories from Thailand - His novel and short stories provide insights into Thai life, particularly that of rural northeast Thailand.
Pira Sudham: stories from Thailand - Pira Sudham is the Thai author writing in English who was nominated for the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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 Bangkok Patana School :: Recent News
Upon arrival, we were met by Khun Pira Sudham, the Thai author who founded the Napo Village Project.
Somewhat disorganised and extremely kind hearted, he is a prime example of how someone of impoverished origins can raise himself through hard work to a position of rank and privilege.
During the course of this visit, Khun Pira was approached by a local lady, who asked him to take in a young orphaned boy from her, for his parents had died and she could not afford to keep him herself.
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The Pira Sudham Estate earns income from Pira Sudham’s properties, copyright.
While you are there, buy one of each book because, like me once you read one book you will crave to read all his books.
One other little thing, Khun Pira Sudham was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature a few years ago.
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The rhetoric of Macaulay and Grant (and Pira Sudham) gives nearly all the virtues to the Europeans, and all the vices to the Asians.
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Writers sometimes (but not always) make it clear (like Macaulay) that they think the values come from the texts written in English, or the things learnt through English, and others (like Pira Sudham) that the values are inherent in the language.
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Pira Sudham : A voice from the grassroots of Thailand
This website provides information about the Thai author, Pira Sudham (1942-), who writes in English and was nominated for the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Sudham's three novels, 'Monsoon Country', 'People of Esarn', and 'Tales of Thailand', are based on his own life-experiences and observations, combining fiction with creative non-fiction.
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Pira Sudham is the Thai author writing in English who was nominated for the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
His novel and short stories provide insights into Thai life, particularly that of rural northeast Thailand.
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