In the Bangkok Post Ezra Kyrill Erker reports on Literary gems found in translation, as Mr.Thai-fiction-in-translation, Marcel Barang, has brought out the anthology 12 Thai Short Stories 2012, which presents: "a dozen of last year's finest short fiction by Thai writers into an accessible and absorbing e-book"
You can get your copy (and a wide selection of other Thai fiction) from Barang's Thai Fiction site -- see the publicity page for the book.
As I often note, fiction from Southeast Asia, and especially the Thai/Burma/Laos/Cambodia region, is particularly hard to come by in English. Just how unknown it remains hereabouts is also brought home by another recent Bangkok Post piece, which begins:
As I often note, fiction from Southeast Asia, and especially the Thai/Burma/Laos/Cambodia region, is particularly hard to come by in English. Just how unknown it remains hereabouts is also brought home by another recent Bangkok Post piece, which begins:
Recently crowned a National Artist and once voted Thailand's favourite novelist, Tomyantee is a recognisable name even to those who don't read novelsSomehow I suspect that even among my well- and widely read readers that may not be the case .....