Thailand
Uthis Haemamool
Uthis Haemamool won the S.E.A. Write Award and the Seven Book Award for The Brotherhood of Kaeng Khoi, his third novel, in 2009. He was cited as one of the most important people in Thailand by CNNGo.
In 2013, he was invited to speak along with the noted Thai film director Apichartpong Weerasethakul in ‘Work in Memory,’ an artist’s workshop held by Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA. Based on his interchange with six Japanese artists who also took part in this workshop, he subsequently wrote a medium-length novel titled Kyoto: Hidden Sense. From 2014 to 2015, Uthis served as editor-in-chief of Writer Magazine, a Thai literary magazine, and Prakod, a literary journal published by the Thai Ministry of Culture’s Office of Contemporary Art and Culture.
In June 2017, his latest novel Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession (Silhouette of Desire in English) was published in Thai. In the same year, he held an exhibition in Bangkok titled Silhouette of Desire with his own drawings and paintings. In 2018, he received the Silpathorn Award for Literature from the Thai Ministry of Culture’s Office of Contemporary Art and Culture.