Chamnongsri Rutnin
Khunying Chamnongsri (Rutnin) Hanchanlash (born 1939) Thai writer, social-mover/advocate for "good death", lecturer, business executive, and social media personality. Chairperson of Rutnin Eye Hospital, Bangkok; Senior Advisor of the Health Promotion Board of Thailand; founding director of Cheevamit Social Enterprise (for end-of-life care in Thailand).
Educated in England England,[1] she returned to Thailand at 18, worked as a reporter and columnist for an English language newspaper until her marriage to Ophthalmologist Uthai Rutnin (died 1993). Together, they established the Rutnin Eye Hospital in Bangkok.[2] After his death, she established the Uthai Rutnin Foundation in 1995 to support and promote ophthalmology-related knowledge [3] and chairs its board of directors. In the 1990s, she established Harbor House Foundation in
She married Dr. Jingjai Hanchanlash in 1997.[2]
Originally producing mainly poetry and stories, her work now includes plays, children's literature, essays and biography. Much of her writing reflects deep interest in Buddhism and meditation. She has translated a number of Thai literature onto English.[1]
Awards
- John A. Eakin Foundation Award
- National Book Award for Children's Literature
Selected works
- Where Dusk Ends, play, received the John A. Eakin Foundation Award
- On the White Empty Page, poetry (English)
- Fon Tok Yang Tong, Fa Rong Yang Thueng (Touched by rain, reached by thunder), poetry (Thai)
- Boats in Mid-Ocean, biographical history of her maternal Chinese family' assimilation
- "Vicha Tua Bao", philosophy/psychology
- "Kenkrok Tua Bao", philosophy /psychology
- Kaewta's Horizon, play
- Orange-8-Legs, the National Book Award for Children's Literature
- "Gecko Gup", the National Book Award for Children's Literature
References
- ^ ISBN 0415159806.
- ^ a b c "Chamnongsri Rutnin". Silkroad Publisherd Agency. Archived from the original on 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
- ^ "Uthai Rutnin Foundation". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-29.