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  • ChronicleThree Worlds According to King Ruangไตรภูมิพระร่วงPhya Lithai · 1345A treatise on Buddhist cosmology from the kingdom of Sukhothai, regarded as one of the oldest texts of Thai literature.Literature
  • Epicรามเกียรติ์Phutthayotfa Chulalok (Rama I) · 1797not translated into EnglishThe story of Rama turned Thai, the national epic from which the masked khon theatre draws almost all its repertoire.Literature
  • PoetryPhra Aphai ManiพระอภัยมณีSunthorn Phu · 1870The longest epic in the Thai language, composed in verse by a court poet at the time when Europeans were arriving in Siam.Literature
  • NovelBehind the Paintingข้างหลังภาพSiburapha · 1937A sentimental novel written after the end of the absolute monarchy by a journalist committed against censorship.Literature
  • NovelFour Reignsสี่แผ่นดินKukrit Pramoj · 1953The great novel of modern Thailand, written twenty years after the end of the absolute monarchy by an aristocrat and journalist.Literature
  • NovelLetters from ThailandจดหมายจากเมืองไทยBotan · 1969A Chinese immigrant tells his mother of his life in Bangkok, in an epistolary novel that won a prize in 1969.Literature
  • NovelA Child of the NortheastลูกอีสานKampoon Boontawee · 1976A year of drought in a village of north-eastern Thailand, seen by an eight-year-old child.Literature
  • NovelThe JudgmentคำพิพากษาChart Korbjitti · 1981A novel of a Thai village where rumour judges and condemns, by a writer from the provinces.Literature
  • PoetryปณิธานกวีAngkarn Kalayanapong · 1986not translated into EnglishA poet's pledge, by the man regarded as the father of modern Thai poetry.Literature
  • NovelMonsoon CountryPira Sudham · 1988A boy from Isan who became a scholarship holder in Europe, between two worlds, in a Thai novel written in English.Literature
  • CinemaNang NakนางนากNonzee Nimibutr · 1999One of the best-known ghost legends of Thailand, brought to the screen by the new wave of national cinema.Cinema
  • CinemaTears of the Black Tigerฟ้าทะลายโจรWisit Sasanatieng · 2000The first feature film of a former art director, a pastiche of the Thai westerns and melodramas of the fifties.Cinema