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Thai fiction

carsonb — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:07:14 -0800

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:22:53 -0800

Awesome! Must check this out. I read Utsana Phleungtham's Story of Jan Darra some years ago and loved it. I recommend it to all and sundry.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:42:47 -0800

And of course, for those without an idea of where to begin, The Twenty Best Novels of Thailand by Marcel Barang, the translator.

By: Falconetti

Falconetti — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:35:02 -0800

I really wish someone would translate Prabda Yoon. He has a book of short stories entitled Probability which got good reviews from the hipster Thai university students I knew when I was living there in 2002. According to an article I read 5 years ago in the Bangkok Post, he uses a lot of Joycean wordplay and formal experimentation mostly unknown to Thai fiction. I can't read Thai and have always hoped he'd get translated into English at some point. The only work of his I have first hand experience of is the screenplay for Last Life in the Universe, a great film by the best Thai director around, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang.

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:50:46 -0800

Thanks for this.

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:57:36 -0800

Falconetti, I knew Prabda when I worked at the Nation. He used to contribute a lot of stories on the local film industry and film reviews. His journalistic writing was very good, so I've also been very curious about his novel.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:22:06 -0800

Excellent, thanks.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:13:48 -0800

Good post, thanks.

By: ibeji

ibeji — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:57:27 -0800

You are the best!

By: zorro astor

zorro astor — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:16:07 -0800

Can you get these in Thai if you were learning?

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:17:02 -0800

Thai On-Line Library - Bitext Corpus "The Thai Bitext Corpus is a collection of Thai and (mostly) English parallel translations or bitexts. The complete library can be searched for usage examples, or individual texts can be read in a variety of layouts."

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:07:31 -0800

Neat-O! Thank you languagehat.

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:39:11 -0800

That is great, thanks LH.