Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Princess Royal is a member of the Thai royal family. She is the second daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit, and the younger sister of Maha Vajiralongkorn.
S. P. Somtow is a Thai-American musical composer and conductor, and a science fiction, fantasy, and horror author writing in English as both Somtow Sucharitkul and S. P. Somtow. He has both Thai and American citizenship.
Shannon Hale is an American author primarily of young adult fantasy, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy and The Goose Girl. Her first novel for adults, Austenland, was adapted into a film in 2013. She is a graduate of the University of Utah and the University of Montana. She has also co-written with her husband, Dean.
Blood of Elves is the first novel in The Witcher series written by the Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski, first published in Poland in 1994. It is a sequel to the Witcher short stories collected in the books The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny and is followed by Time of Contempt. The book won the Janusz A. Zajdel Award in 1994 and the David Gemmell Legend Award in 2009. An English translation was published in the United Kingdom in 2008 (Gollancz) and in the United States in 2009 (Orbit).
Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer. She completed her third trilogy, The Traitor Spy trilogy, in August 2012 with The Traitor Queen. Subsequently, Canavan has written a series called Millennium's Rule, with a completely new setting consisting of multiple worlds which characters can cross between. Though originally planned as a trilogy, a fourth and final book in the Millennium's Rule series was published.
Minfong Ho is a Chinese–American writer. Her works frequently deal with the lives of people living in poverty in Southeast Asian countries. Despite being fiction, her stories are always set against the backdrop of real events, such as the student movement in Thailand in the 1970s and the Cambodian refugee problem with the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. Her simple yet touching language and her optimistic themes have made her writing popular among children as well as young adults.
Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo is a Filipina fictionist, critic and pioneering writer of creative nonfiction. She is currently Professor Emeritus of English & Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman and Director of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies. She was given the S.E. Write Award for Literature in 2020 by the Royal Family of Thailand.
Dek hor is a 2006 Thai horror-drama film directed by Songyos Sugmakanan.
Siripun Taechachiadawong is a Thai writer who writes under the pen name Koynuch.
Knot Gneiss is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the 34th book of the Xanth series.
Ann Packer is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the recipient of a James Michener Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
Suwanni Sukhontha was the pen name of Suwanni Sukhonthiang, a Thai writer and novelist. In 1971, she won the SEATO Literature Award, the award which has been succeeded by the S.E.A. Write Award after the dissolution of the SEATO.
Harry Nicolaides is an Australian writer of Greek-Cypriot origin who was imprisoned in Thailand under the Thai lèse majesté law, for a passage in a 2005 novel that was alleged to have defamed the Thai monarchy. On 19 January 2009, he was sentenced to three years in prison and was provisionally pardoned on 21 February, after having spent six months in a Thai prison.
Phra Aphai Mani is a 48,700-line epic poem composed by Thai poet Sunthorn Phu, who is known as "the Bard of Rattanakosin". It is considered to be one of Thailand's national epics. With 48,686 couplets, it is listed as the longest Thai single poem. Suthorn Phu started working on this epic fantasy in 1822 and finished it in 1844; it took 22 years. It is also one of the most well-known Thai folklores that has been heavily adapted into films and comics. The main protagonists are Prince Aphai Mani, the mermaid, and the Pisue Samutra; a female ogress who can transmute herself into a beautiful girl.
Atsiri Thammachot is a writer in Thailand. He is the winner of the Southeast Asian Writers Award in 1981 for the short story "Khun-Thong you will return at dawn"
Subha Devakul was a Thai writer.
Veeraporn Nitiprapha is a Thai author of novels and short stories. Her work has been acclaimed for its distinctive lyrical character, often influenced by classical Thai literature, and its subtle reflection on human relationship in modern Asian society and its intersection with current politics. Her first novel Saiduean Ta Bod Nai Khaowongkot won the prestigious Southeast Asian Writers Award in 2015 and established her among the leading Southeast Asian writers of her generation. Nitiprapha has published several short stories in magazines, which are noted for their innovative narrative techniques and stylistic richness. Her second novel Phutthasakkarat Asadong Kub Song Jam Khong Song Jam Khong Maew Kularb Dam won S.E.A. Write Award in 2018, making her the first woman to win the literary award twice.
Sukanya Cholasuek, writing under the pen name Krisna Asoksin, is a Thai novelist. She has written about 150 novels and many other short stories. Her 1980 novel Poon Pid Thong (ปูนปิดทอง) won the S.E.A. Write Award in 1985, and she was named National Artist in literature in 1988. Most of her early work has been described as "domestic drama", while her more recent output has taken on social and political themes. Many of her novels have been adapted as well-known Thai television soap operas, each with multiple remakes, including Namphueng Khom, Mia Luang and Sawan Biang.
Dek-D.com is a Thai-language youth-oriented website, featuring a large online community and education-related content. It was launched on 31 December 1999 by four students from Suankularb Wittayalai School, and since 2005 has been operated by Bangkok-based Dek-D Interactive Co., Ltd. It is one of the most visited Thailand-based websites and has been ranked among the top five by web traffic analyzer Truehits since 2008.
