“...during a time when people in Thai society, including members of literary,... harbored resentment toward, ridiculed and disparaged writers and poets... who were “red”, to take such a stance openly was practically a crime...”
Ida Aroonwong - editor ‘Unspeakable Dreams’
“When we humans must exist among heaps and heaps of garbage all the time, we’re bound to turn into garbage before long.”
Thai writer @duanwad with a dystopian short story and a fabled Land Without Trash. Tr. Mui Poopoksakul for our climate issue. https://t.co/aumxDFnpGo
#Bright by @duanwad is next up for the #TenTweetThread book review. “Duanwad Pimwana’s bittersweet novel reveals glimpses of the inner life of Thai culture in such an entertaining manner that one can’t help but absorb its social realist ingredients with pleasure and ease.”
With work by @AndriMagnason, Amy Brady (@ingredient_x), Duanwad Pimwana (@duanwad), Francisco de la Mora, Ariadna Castellarnau. Translations from Icelandic, Thai, and Spanish by Lytton Smith, Mui Poopoksakul, @ninaperrotta, and @a_nathanwest. https://t.co/8YgafZcXDa
Don't forget that for the entire month of May our 2019 ebooks are $2.99 wherever digital books are sold! That includes:
✅ THE SUMMER OF DEAD BIRDS by Ali Liebegott
✅ MARS by @asjaba
✅ ARID DREAMS by @duanwad
'Each story is more compelling than the last, each combines dark humor with deeper truths about human desire and depravity'
Pre-order Arid Dreams by Duanwad Pimwana (trs @muipoopoksakul), our upcoming collection of Thai short stories. 🐔
https://t.co/2zoKj8QXeF
Class, gender, desire, disenchantment and a glorious chicken: social realist short stories by Duanwad Pimwana, translated from Thai by @muipoopoksakul
Coming your way 7 May 2020.🐔
https://t.co/wKQVV1raww
Sasha from @ReadingsBooks knows what's up!
"Thai writer Duanwad Pimwana’s novel, BRIGHT, was one of the bright spots in Hawthorn bookseller Sasha’s reading year."
https://t.co/kJ1uT2Hgur
The new cover of 'Bright' version Thai in the name 'Changsamran' reprinted 20 times!
'Bright' America is blue
'Bright' Australia is yellow
'Bright' Thai is yellow and blue
Great news from @Brow_Books today! 'Bright' by Duanwad Pimwana officially on shelves and making history. Translated by Mui Poopoksakul, 'Bright' is the first novel by a Thai woman to appear in English: https://t.co/d4iKvTJxJR
We're so excited to publish Duanwad Pimwana’s (@duanwad) award-winning novel Bright, translated from the Thai by Mui Poopoksakul (@muipoopoksakul), this June. Bright won Southeast Asia’s most prestigious literary prize, the S.E.A. Write Award, in 2003.
https://t.co/8avpr3Abia