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Prabda Yoon (Thai: ปราบดา หยุ่น; RTGS: Prapda Yun; born 2 August 1973 in Bangkok) is a Thai writer, novelist, filmmaker, artist, graphic designer, magazine editor, screenwriter, translator and media personality. His literary debut, Muang Moom Shak (City of Right Angles), a collection of five related stories about New York City, and the follow-up story collection, Kwam Na Ja Pen (Probability), both published in 2000, immediately turned him into "...the talk of the town..."[1] In 2002, Kwam Na Ja Pen won the S.E.A. Write Award, an award presented to accomplished Southeast Asian writers and poets.

Prabda Yoon
Prabda Yoon 2017
Native name	ปราบดา หยุ่น
Born	(1973-08-02) August 2, 1973 (age 48) Bangkok, Thailand
Occupation	Writer filmmaker translator graphic designer artist
Language	Thai English
Nationality	Thai
Notable awards	S.E.A. Write Award, 2002
Website
Official website

Prabda has been prolific, having written over 20 books of fiction and nonfiction in ten years, designed over 100 book covers for many publishers and authors, translated a number of modern Western classics[1] such as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pnin, all of J. D. Salinger's books, Anthony Burgess's' A Clockwork Orange, and Karel Čapek's R.U.R. He has also written two acclaimed screenplays for Thai "new wave" filmmaker Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, "Last Life in the Universe" (2003) and "Invisible Waves" (2006). Prabda's literary work has been translated to Japanese and published in Japan regularly. He has exhibited his artworks (paintings, drawings, installations) in Thailand and Japan. He has also produced music and written songs with the bands Buahima and The Typhoon Band.

In 2004, Prabda founded Typhoon Studio, a small publishing house with two imprints, Typhoon Books and Sunday Afternoon. In 2012, he opened Bookmoby Readers' Cafe, a small bookshop at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. In 2015, Prabda wrote and directed his first feature film, "Motel Mist", which was selected to premiere and compete at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2016. The Sad Part Was, a collection of twelve short stories mostly taken from Prabda's Kwam Na Ja Pen[2] in English, translated from Thai by Mui Poopoksakul[3] (who won an English PEN Award for her translation), was published by the London-based independent publisher, Tilted Axis, and released in the UK on 3 March 2017. It is said to be the first translation of Thai fiction to be published in the UK.

Family and education

Prabda is the son of the well known Thai media personality Suthichai Sae-Yoon, cofounder of The Nation newspaper, and former magazine editor and novelist Nantawan Sae-Yoon, both of Bangkok. He has one younger sister, Shimboon "Kit" Yoon, who lives with her family in the US. Prabda completed his elementary school education in Bangkok, then attended high school at the Cambridge School of Weston in Weston, Massachusetts. He went to Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, New York City, for two years, studying communication design, and four more years at the Cooper Union, where he studied graphic design under Dan Friedman and Milton Glaser and film with Robert Breer. He graduated from Cooper Union in 1997. Prabda returned to Thailand in 1998 for military service.[4]

Works

Short stories

• Right-angled City
• Probability
• Flood in the Eyes
• The Moving Parts
• This Really happened
• The Shoulders of Mountains
• Cleaning the Dead
• Ancient Planet
• Yoon, Prabda (2017). The Sad Part Was. Translated by Mui Poopoksakul (Print ed.). London: Tilted Axis Press. ISBN 9781911284062. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
• Yoon, Prabda (2018). Moving Parts. Translated by Mui Poopoksakul (Print ed.). London: Tilted Axis Press. ISBN 9781911284185. Retrieved 5 April 2019.

Novels

• Chit-tak!, 2002
• Panda, 2004
• Lessons in Rain, 2005
• Under the Snow, 2006

Essays

• Unstill Pictures
• Water for the Skull
• Please Don't Read, Carefully
• Alive: On the Breath of Words
• Imagined Landscapes
• Page Zero
• Hitting the Eyes
• Writing to Japan
• Music with Tears

Screenplays

• Last Life in the Universe, with Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003
• Invisible Waves, 2006
• Motel Mist, 2015

References

External links

• Teh, David, "Picking up the pieces", Bangkok Post, (2005-12-24)
• Typhoon Studio
• Prabda Yoon at IMDb
• Artificial Eye
• RMA 2016 interviews Prabda Yoon on Motel Mist
• Prabda Yoon speaking at Creative Morning, Turin, 2018

На других языках

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- [en] Prabda Yoon

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[ru] Прабда Юн

Прабда Юн (тайск. ปราบดา หยุ่น; 2 августа 1973 года, Бангкок, Таиланд) — тайский писатель , художник, графический дизайнер, редактор журналов, режиссёр, сценарист, переводчик и медийная личность. Популярность и признание в литературном сообществе Таиланда Прабде Юну принесли два сборника рассказов. Первый сборник состоит из пяти рассказов, посвященных Нью-Йорку. Второй сборник рассказов, опубликованный в 2000 году, называется «Вероятность». В 2002 году за сборник рассказов «Вероятность» Прабда Юн получил литературную премию Юго-Восточной Азии, которая является самым престижным литературным конкурсом в Таиланде. Благодаря своему таланту и профессионализму Прабда Юн стал одним из самых известных и влиятельных тайских писателей XXI века[2].

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