Pira Sudham

Pira Sudham was born in a village in Isan, northeastern Thailand. At the age of fourteen he left Isan for Bangkok to become a servant to Buddhist monks in a monastery where he also attended a secondary school. Later he entered Triam Udom High School before gaining a place at Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. He won a New Zealand government scholarship to read English Literature at Auckland University and then Victoria University of Wellington, where his first story was published by New Zealand's leading literary quarterly Landfall. Since then Pira Sudham has been writing short stories, poems and novels in English. He has not produced any literary works in the Thai language.