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Mom Luang Boonlua Debyasuvarn Kunchon (December 13, 1911 – June 7, 1982), writing under the
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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
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and was educated at a
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convent
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there, at a convent
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in
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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
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in 1936 and an MA in education from the
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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
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. After completing her master's degree which had been funded by a scholarship, she returned to Thailand. She retired from public service in 1970; around the same time, she married a doctor. Boonlua also began writing, producing five novels. She published a number of essays on Thai literature and is thought to have established the basis for modern Thai literary criticism. Some of Boonlua's work has been translated into English and incorporated into a number of comparative studies of contemporary Southeast Asian writing. She also translated English stories into Thai and Thai literature into English. In 1968, she was tasked with founding the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Sanam Chandra Palace Campus of
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. Her sister M.L. Buppha Kunchon Nimmanhemin, also a novelist, wrote under the name Dō̜kmai Sot.


Awards and honours

Boonlua has been given the following honours: * Commander (Third Class) of the Most Exalted
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* Commander (Third Class) of the Most Noble
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* Companion (Third Class) of the Most Illustrious
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Selected works

* ''Thutiyawiset'', novel (1968) * ''Suratnari'', novel (The Land of Women) (1972) * ''Sneh Plai Jwak'', novella (The Enchanted Cooking Spoon)


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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development alumni
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
20th-century translators
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 ...
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 ...
20th-century women educators
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 ...