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 actions. She died peacefully,” Sakchai said.
Nongchanai wrote many well-known books including Phoo Yai Lee Gab Nang Ma (Village Headman Lee and Miss Ma), Toranee Ni Nee Krai Krong (Who Owns This Land?) and Phoo Kong Yod Ruk (My Dear Captain). The Ministry of Culture honoured her as a National Artist in the literature category in 2012.