Sad loss
Respected novelist dies
Famous novelist and national artist nongchanai prinyathawat ,whose pen name was kanchana nakhanan , died at her home in chanthaburi on may 31. She was 93.
Kanchana's son , sakchai prinyathawat, said his mother told him to prepare her coffin two days before she died.
"My mother had been practising dhamma and meditation and was always conscious of her action. She died peacefully, " sakchaisaid"
Nongchannai wrote many well known books incliding phoo yai lee gab nang ma (village headman lee and miss ma) , toranee ni nee krai krong (who owns this land?) phoo kong yod ruk (my dear captian). The ministry of culture honoured her as a national artist in the literature category in 2012.