What are Thais famous for abroad?
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Reading The Nation's "40 most internationally acclaimed Thais", one name grabbed my attention, Somtow Sucharitkul.
I was impressed when I read that he has “penned more than 50 books with total sales exceeding two million copies, and some titles making the bestseller list.”
I perused further, hoping to find out what his genre is, and what titles made the bestseller lists; disappointedly, I found none. If you lauded his musical play “Mae Naak” as the first Thai opera performed anywhere in Europe, surely you can reveal his best-known book and the name of the bestseller list it was on.
Meanwhile, your list apparently doesn’t count Laos, Cambodia and Burma as the international community. Thongchai Macintyre, Sek Loso, Ad Carabao and a few soap superstars are heavily popular there, but none makes the list.
Somsak Pola
Samut Prakan
