Boonlua Debyasuvarn
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 Church, 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 Bachelor of Arts, BA in Thai language and literature at Chulalongkorn University in 1936 and an Master of Arts, 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 the ...
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