Blogs about: Siriworn Kaewkan

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Une bouffée de jeunesse2 comments

marcel barang wrote 1 week ago: = They came with the rain last night, stayed with the pelting rain and left with the rain as it pete … more →

Tags: English, Arjin Panjaphan, Kosin Khao-ngam, Pajonphai Publishing, Rueangkit Rakkarnjanan, Saneh Sangsuk

On Thai visa extension and other forms of torture – 1

marcel barang wrote 2 weeks ago: Yes, my visa and labour permit have been extended for another year – one day past the deadline. And … more →

Tags: English, Jadet Kamjorndet, ocac, SEA Write Award, thai immigration, Thai labour permit extension, Thai ministry of culture, Thai Ministry of Labour, Thai visa extension

Burglary in Pak Chong

marcel barang wrote 3 months ago: = It seems I’ve developed tunnel vision in life: when I get into gear over some lengthy written unde … more →

Tags: chart korbjitti, pastis, Saneh Sangsuk, Le Seuil, Pak Chong, Cops and Robbers, rural thailand, tunnel vision, workaholics

And then they were seven

marcel barang wrote 10 months ago: Since, judging from their online versions, neither the Bangkok Post nor The Nation seem to bother to … more →

Tags: English, READING MATTERS, Uthis Hemamool, Vipaj Srithong, Daen-aran Saengthong/Saneh Sangsuk, Sakorn Poolsuk, SEA Write shortlist, Ngao Jan, Pichetsak Popayak

The coming literary crop

marcel barang wrote 11 months ago: It’s this time of year again: the long list of the SEA Write Award 2012 is out. Fifteen novels are i … more →

Tags: Daen-aran Saengthong, Le Seuil, Mahannop Chomchalao, ocac, Panu Trivej, Saneh Sangsuk, SEA Write Award, Thai ministry of culture, Uthis Hemamool

AWOL2 comments

marcel barang wrote 1 year ago: Absent With Own Leave, that is – since 24 November. Not that I went anywhere at all, but heavy house … more →

Tags: English, Naruecha Mueanjai-ngarm, ’Rong Wongsawan, Boonchit Fakme, Wiang Buason, THAN YUTTHACHAIBODIN, Seni Saowaphong, Khamsing Srinawk, Sukamol Rungbun

Chronicle of a flood foretold – Day Six

marcel barang wrote 1 year ago: . 8:45am: 14cm. The cocks are back to crowing normally – well, almost: too much still. Perhaps they … more →

Tags: English, READING MATTERS, Chor Karrakeit, Wat Daowadueng, Jadet Kamjorndet, flooding, froc, cocks and hens

What flood?2 comments

marcel barang wrote 1 year ago: . Siriworn and Jadet came last night but Mother Ganga had better things to do than crashing in on th … more →

Tags: English, chart korbjitti, Win Lyovarin, Jadet Kamjorndet, Mae Khongkha, The Oriental, flooding, Raymond Poulidor, Wiang Buason

Siriworn, Jadet, the Ganga goddess and me

marcel barang wrote 1 year ago: . Not so long ago I translated a story by Siriworn Kaewkan, ‘Lanta, Carrie May and me’, which takes … more →

Tags: English, Wat Daowadueng, Jadet Kamjorndet, Mae Khongkha, พระแม่คงคา, คงคาเทวี, Ganga goddess, The Oriental

How soon is ‘soon’?

marcel barang wrote 1 year ago: . Thirty-three years and counting. After all this time, I still keep learning Thai, or rather Thai m … more →

Tags: English, DHM, Jadet Kamjorndet, Oxford multilingual dictionary, SEA Write Award

SEA Write 2011: It’s Jadet Siriworn!

marcel barang wrote 1 year ago: At 3:30pm today, I get a call from Siriworn Kaewkan: Jadet Kamjorndet is this year’s SEA Write Award … more →

Tags: English, READING MATTERS, จเด็จ กำจรเดช, Jadet Kamjorndet, Pajonphai Publishing, SEA Write Award

Laying it on a bit thick

marcel barang wrote 1 year ago: . The morning sun is too hot to sit sipping coffee – a wonderful title for a collection of (usually … more →

Tags: English, READING MATTERS, SEA Write Award, จเด็จ กำจรเดช, Jadet Kamjorndet, Satha-phorn Jorndit, Pajonphai Publishing

This year’s SEA Write finalists

marcel barang wrote 1 year ago: Just out is the list of the seven final contenders for the SEA Write Award, crowning this year a col … more →

Tags: English, READING MATTERS, SEA Write Award, Fa Poonvoralak, Rewat Panpipat, Phichetsak Pho-phayak, Anusorn Tipaya-non, Wat Yuangkaeo, Jakraphan Kang-wan

The Greatest Magic and other flops

marcel barang wrote 1 year ago: . Once more on Siriworn Kaewkan’s latest collection of short stories, self-published and self-titled … more →

Tags: English, READING MATTERS, SEA Write Award

From here to Nagasaki

marcel barang wrote 1 year ago: . A 14th of July to remember: first outing on crutches to get my teeth fixed once again – stitches t … more →

Tags: Tour de France, thonburi hospital, 14 juillet, Asanha Puja

Ariya’s first voyage – Siriworn Kaewkan

marcel barang wrote 2 years ago: The Indian Ocean was heaving, exhausted, after sending a tide of demented waves lashing at seaside r … more →

Tags: Bangkok Post 2008--2011, Bangkok Post, thai short story

Christmas in May

marcel barang wrote 2 years ago: . Last night I got an email from immateriel.fr, where three dozen Thai novels and collections of sho … more →

Tags: English, thaifiction.com, paysbuy, immatériel.fr, facebook, ศิริวร แก้วกาญจน์, PayPal, manager.co.th, iPad

Blog hits

marcel barang wrote 2 years ago: . Something happened to this blog on Saturday. The number of viewers shot up, from a low of 25 views … more →

Tags: English, statistics, Songkran, facebook

A Siriworn out day

marcel barang wrote 2 years ago: . So yesterday I got this and then that mail intimating that there’s a book fair coming up in Taipei … more →

Tags: English, Thai ministry of culture, wiwat lertwiwatwongsa, Taipei book fair, Alphaville Hotel


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