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Remembrances of Red Trauma (18) – Writing about atrocity, a challenge for Thai literature

June 3, 2020

Duanwad Pimwana, one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Thai literature, talks about the challenges Thai literature faces in dealing with the trauma of the April-May 2010 violence.

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Remembrances of Red Trauma (17) – Killings in the capital, impossible to unremember

June 2, 2020

“It’s no small thing. If you know that people died at the hands of the state, if you know they were shot with bullets paid for with our taxes, it’s quite a different matter than being shot by a common robber,” says Dueanwad Phimwana, author and S.E.A. Write Award winner of 2003. [VIDEO]