WRITERS from Thailand

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Thai Writers of all time. This list of famous Thai Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Emmanuelle Arsan (1932 - 2005)

With an HPI of 59.97, Emmanuelle Arsan is the most famous Thai Writer.  Her biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.

Marayat Rollet-Andriane, formerly Marayat Krasaesin (Thai: มารยาท กระแสสินธุ์) or her birthname Marayat Bibidh (Thai: มารยาท พิพิธวิรัชชการ; RTGS: Marayat Phiphitwiratchakan; born 19 January 1932 – 12 June 2005), known by the pen name Emmanuelle Arsan, was a Thai-French novelist, best known for the novel featuring the fictional character Emmanuelle, a woman who sets out on a voyage of sexual self-discovery under varying circumstances. It was later claimed that the real author of the book was her husband, Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane.

2. Buddhadasa (1906 - 1993)

With an HPI of 50.52, Buddhadasa is the 2nd most famous Thai Writer.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Buddhadasa (27 May 1906 – 25 May 1993) was a Thai Buddhist monk. Known as an innovative reinterpreter of Buddhist doctrine and Thai folk beliefs, he fostered a reformation in conventional religious perceptions in his home country, Thailand, as well as abroad. He developed a personal view that those who have penetrated the essential nature of religions consider "all religions to be inwardly the same", while those who have the highest understanding of dhamma feel "there is no religion".