Sunthorn Phu

Sunthorn Phu was born on 26 June 1786 in Bangkok, behind the royal palace, where his mother served as a nurse. Imprisoned for having loved a lady of the palace, then pardoned, he became a court poet under Rama II. When the king died, he took the monk's robe; disgraced under Rama III for having corrected a poem by the sovereign, he lived as a monk and then as a merchant, before heading the scribes of the viceroy under Rama IV. He also wrote travel poems. He died in 1855, and UNESCO honoured him in 1986.

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