Mom Luang Buppha Nimmanhemin (1905 – 1963), writing under the

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Dokmai Sot, was the most important Thai woman novelist in the period before

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. The second youngest child of Chao Phraya Thewet, a high-ranking official who had 32 children, she was educated at home and at a

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. 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

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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 novelist, wrote under the name Boonlua.

Selected works

* ''Phu Di'' (A person of good quality), novel (1938)

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dokmai Sot 1905 births 1963 deaths Thai women novelists Thai novelists 20th-century Thai women writers 20th-century Thai writers Pseudonymous women writers Mom Luang 20th-century pseudonymous writers