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About Suchart Sawatsi
- Suchart Sawatsi (born June 24, 1945) is a Thai editor and writer.
- He has been described as "the single most influential figure in the contemporary Thai literary world".The son of Sae Sawatsi, a doctor in the Thai army medical corps, he was born in Tha Ruea District, Ayutthaya province.
- At the end of World War II, his parents returned to Bangkok and he received his primary and secondary school education at Wat Don Muang.
- Sawatsi went on to study history at Thammasat University.
- After graduating in 1966, he taught history and geography at a private school for a short time.
- He was then able to secure a position as assistant to Sulak Sivaraksa, editor of the literary journal Sangkhomsat Parithat.
- When Sivaraksa left two years later, Sawatsi became editor.
- Under his editorship, the journal became more active politically, often criticizing the government.
- In 1977, when a new military regime took power, he was removed from the post of editor after the journal was brought back to a purely academic orientation.A number of stories by Sawatsi appeared in Sangkhomsat Parithat.
- In 1972, these stories were published as Khwam Ngiap (Silence).In 1977, he became editor of a new literary journal Lok Nangsu’.
- That publication was not profitable and ceased publication in 1984.
- He next was editor for Ban Mai Ru Roi and Samoso’n Thanon Nangsu’.
- In 1989, he was co-founder of the literary group Samnak Chang Wannakam, which published a quarterly short story magazine Cho’ Karaket until 2000.
- In 1997, he received the Sriburapha Award and, in 2005, the Pittisin Prize.He married Thai writer Wanna Thappanon, who uses the pen name Sidaoruang.
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