Outhine Bounyavong

Outhine Bounyavong was born in 1942 in Sayaboury, in the west of the country, into a modest family, and grew up in Vientiane, where one of his first teachers was the author of the first Lao novel. A proofreader and then editor, he became close to the group of the children of the scholar Maha Sila Viravong and married his daughter, herself a writer. After 1975 he continued to write for the state publishing house, and in the 1990s produced books for children. He completed the translation into everyday language of an epic that his father-in-law had left unfinished. He died in 2000.

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• Short storiesMother's Belovedແຜ່ນດິນແມ່Outhine Bounyavong · 1980Literature