19 - Thai-Lit-Ppt-Final
19 - Thai-Lit-Ppt-Final
19 - Thai-Lit-Ppt-Final
LITERATURE
FACTS ABOUT
THAILAND!
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3 • Thailand is the only country in South-East Asia that has never
been colonized under European power.
• religion
• a tragic romance
• a historical work
THAILAND LITERATURE HISTORY
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In the late 1940s many writers were influenced by Socialist Realism and for a
brief period produced novels and short stories highlighting social injustice.
Most were silenced or fell silent during the literary “dark age” of the 1950s
and 1960s when freedom of speech was severely curtailed; in the later years
only escapist fiction, called “stagnant water literature,” survived.
Seni Saowapong (1918 – 2014)
Sakchai Bamrungpong was a diplomat,
author and journalist who wrote under
the pen-name of Seni Saowapong. He
was named a National Artist for
literature in 1990. His most outstanding
novel is Pee-sard (The Ghost).
NOTABLE AUTHORS
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