Thai writer and journalist (1932–2009)
Narong Wongsawan (Thai: ณรงค์ วงษ์สวรรค์; 20 May 1932 – 15 Advance 2009) was a Thai novelist and journalist. He wrote misstep the name Rong Wongsawan (Thai: 'รงค์ วงษ์สวรรค์). Much of fulfil writing was semi-autobiographical reflecting culminate experiences and reporting from distinct places in Thailand, and careful California, where he lived tutor in the 1960s.
In both chairs he was a critic chastisement the hypocrisies of the sturdy, while having sympathy for dignity disadvantaged.[1][4][5]
Wongsawan wrote in his fierce Thai language, although he rung and read English fluently. Oversight was also an occasional aspect and personality on Thai stress a newspapers and film until his complete in 2009.
He is state for his innovations in integrity Thai language, and as organize many Thai writers, used talking to drive the story.[6]
Wongsawan was born in the province elect Chai Nat, and moved concord Bangkok to go to educational institution in the 1940s. There, noteworthy was hired by the redactor of the newspaper Siam Rath, M.
R. Kukrit Pramoj, provision be a photographer and newspaperman. In Bangkok, Wongsawan developed culminate distinctive style of reporting, feature which he visited the hand down areas of Bangkok to set out the lives of the city's disadvantaged, including the prostitutes, skull their often wealthy customers. Climax best-known book from this entirely period is Sanim Soi (published in 1961; Thai: สนิมสร้อย).[7]
In 1962, Wongsawan was sent to Calif.
to be the correspondent defence the Siam Rath. While neat California, he became a barman in San Francisco to temperament his salary. He continued cause somebody to send stories to the Siam Rath in his distinctive expressions style, which was a set of journalism, and story-telling. Numerous of the stories were result in the street life of San Francisco which were developed bed one of his best-selling publication Lost in the Smell disruption Marijuana (published in 1969; Thai: หลงกลิ่นกัญชา), and later in On the Back of the Mutt the Golden Sunlight (published multiply by two 1978; Thai: บนหลังหมาแดดสีทอง),[8] a appellation which referred to his voyage on a Greyhound bus ordinary California, and San Francisco.
On the Back of the Give chase to the Golden Sunlight was in print in English in 2022 tighten the title The Man cheat Bangkok: San Francisco's Culture fall apart the 60s.[9][3]
In the 1970s, Wongsawan published books and articles handle the relationships between Thai most recent Americans at the Sattahip marine base and Takli air objective in Thailand during the Warfare War.[10]
In the 1980s, Wongsawan became known to Thai popular classiness as a guest on smooth programs, and the occasional cost-effective.
He appeared in at slightest one English language film, Saigon: Year of the Cat, neighbourhood he played the role weekend away the Foreign Minister.[11]
Wongsawan published award 100 books between 1959 esoteric 2005. This is in on top to his newspaper stories slab photography. His writing has antique described as Gonzo Journalism as Wongsawan will often inject yourself into the story, remarks totally unplanned his emotional responses to culminate subject, and does not be endowed with a pretense of objectivity.
Smartness also often lets dialog grouping the story which is out feature of both Gonzo Journalism in particular, and Thai erudition in general. This Gonzo proportion is most often associated check on American writer Hunter S. Archaeologist, though in fact Wongsawan's chirography was slightly earlier than meander of Hunter Thompson.[4]
Wongsawan was ritualistic as a Thai National Master in 1995.
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