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Boonlua
Mom Luang Boonlua Debyasuvarn Kunchon (December 13, 1911 – June 7, 1982), writing under the pen name Boonlua, was a Thai writer, educator and civil servant. She is considered to have been one of Thailand's most important educators during a crucial phase of that country's modernization. Biography The youngest child of Chao Phraya Thewet, a high ranking official who had 32 children, and the only child of Mom Nual, a classical Thai dancer, she was born in Bangkok and was educated at a Catholic convent primary school there, at a convent secondary school in Penang and then earned her secondary school certificate at Saint Mary’s S.P.G School in Bangkok. She received a BA in Thai language and literature at Chulalongkorn University in 1936 and an MA in education from the University of Minnesota in 1950. After her graduation from Chulalongkorn University, she entered public service. She later became a teacher of literature and then an educational administrator in the Ministry of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dō̜kmai Sot
Mom Luang Buppha Nimmanhemin (1905 – 1963), writing under the pen name Dokmai Sot, was the most important Thailand, Thai woman novelist in the period before World War II. The second youngest child of Chao Phraya Thewet, a high-ranking official who had 32 children, she was educated at home and at a Catholic Church, Catholic convent primary school in Bangkok. When she was five years old, her mother Mom Malai left Chao Phraya Thewet to marry a Western foreigner; Dō̜kmai Sot remained with her father. Her earlier novels were romances but her later work, set in the world of the Thai elite, deals with moral issues in a changing world, based on Buddhism, Buddhist values. In her view, a person's quality was not measured by their social status but by their morality as reflected in their behaviour. She also wrote a number of short stories which are less known than her novels. In 1954, she married the Thai politician Sukich Nimmanhemin. Her sister Boonlua Kunchon Thepyasuwan, also a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buppha Kunchon Nimmanhemin
Mom Luang Buppha Nimmanhemin (1905 – 1963), writing under the pen name Dokmai Sot, was the most important Thai woman novelist in the period before World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo .... The second youngest child of Chao Phraya Thewet, a high-ranking official who had 32 children, she was educated at home and at a Catholic Church, Catholic convent primary school in Bangkok. When she was five years old, her mother Mom Malai left Chao Phraya Thewet to marry a Western foreigner; Dō̜kmai Sot remained with her father. Her earlier novels were romances but her later work, set in the world of the Thai elite, deals with moral issues in a changing world, based on Buddhism, Buddhist values. In her view, a person's quality was not measured by their social statu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |