Suwannee Sukontha
Writing
Biography
Suwannee Sukontha was the penname of Suwannee Sukonthiang, an award-winning novelist born in Phitsanulok, Thailand. After graduating from Chalermkwansatree School, she went on to study at the Poh-Chang Academy of Arts before studying at Silpakorn University's Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts where she completed her bachelor's degree in 1951. Beginning her career as a government teacher at Bangkok's School of Arts and a Silpakorn University lecturer, she began writing bovels in 1965. That year, her first short story "A Letter to Puk" (จดหมายถึงปุก) under the penname Suwannee which she later changed to Suwannee Sukontha by writer and Siam Rath Weekly Review editor Pra-mun Aunha-thup. Her first novel "Sai Bo Yut Sane Hai" (สายบ่หยุดเสน่ห์หาย) was published to positive reception and she eventually resigned from her government position to write full-time. In 1971, she won the SEATO Literature Award and in 1972, she became the editor of Lalana Magazine where she worked until her death. With her ex-husband, national artist Tawee Nantakwang, Suwannee had four children before they divorced and she went on to marry Pat Srisawat Bandhumasuta. Her only son Namphu Wongmueang Nantakwang died of a narcotic drug overdose in 1974 at the age of eighteen. Blaming herself for her role in parenting him, she eventually adapted his story into the novel "Blue Moon" (พระจันทร์สีน้ำเงิน) as a lesson for other parents. The work popularised the term "problem child" (เด็กมีปัญหา) in Thai society. On February 3, 1984, Suwannee was murdered by two young men on her way to a market in Bangkok. The two technical students wanted to steal and sell her BMW so they could buy drugs, stabbing her dozens of times and leaving her body in the grass along the roadside.
Known For
The story is about Thongprakai or Thongdee, a girl who went to live in Bangkok in search for a better life. She gets involved with several men, using them as a ladder to become rich and luxurious.
Golden Spark
Pring is a stunningly beautiful woman with a heart as cold as stone. Deprived of a normal family life growing up, she longs for perfect love and a complete family—ideals she chases relentlessly. Driven by ambition and desperation, she's willing to do whatever it takes to turn her fantasy into reality. Along the way, she marries six times, with each relationship ending in tragedy.
Khon Rerng Muang
A young and dedicated doctor who believes in saving lives especially the unfortunate poor’s, takes his young wife along to work in a small town, leaving behind the comfortable life of the city. He’s not only going to fight to save their marriage but also the corrupted local official till the end.
Karn
The story as told by his mother of an eighteen year old boy who falls into a life of drugs and violence and of the consequences to himself and those around him.
The Story of Nampu
A young and idealistic doctor is sent to a remote province in Thailand, where he finds that the residents lack access to public services, the district officer runs an illegal gambling house, and the officials are all corrupt.
Karn
Pat, a junior and senior artist, and Chidchua. It was born into a love triangle that is difficult to withdraw. When flavor and putt are related until she had serious feelings for him But he only thought of having her to cure his loneliness.
The Last Love
Nion is a student who was shuffled. The meaning will be mentally, but between the red light Non looked at the dubious position of Chiffer. So he tried driving the car as to see. Until the taxi runs into the hotel, the curtain swipe saw the Chiffer Taxi Krai Nitham that was unconscious to the room. So went to open the room next to And pretend to go to the phone to say that it is a hotel Informed that there was a police coming to Chiffer So leap immediately escaped Non went to find Nye. Trying to wake up, but Niran didn't wake up, he ordered the beer to sit and eat and drunk on the bed.