He has also published children's books, a historical novel, and about a hundred works of short fiction. In his 1984 novel Vampire Junction, he injected a new literary inventiveness into the horror genre, in the words of Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, 'skillfully combining the styles of Stephen King, William Burroughs, and the author of the Revelation to John.' Vampire Junction was voted one of the forty all-time greatest horror books by the Horror Writers' Association, joining established classics like Frankenstein and Dracula. But science fiction was not able to contain him and he began to cross into other genres. Campbell for Best New Writer as well as being nominated for and winning numerous other awards in the field. His earliest novels were in the science fiction field and he soon won the John W. Conditions in the arts in the region at the time proved so traumatic for the young composer that he suffered a major burnout, emigrated to the United States, and reinvented himself as a novelist. His first career was in music and in the 1970s, his first return to Asia, he acquired a reputation as a revolutionary composer, the first to combine Thai and Western instruments in radical new sonorities. He is best known as an award-winning novelist and a composer of operas.īorn in Bangkok, Somtow grew up in Europe and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Once referred to by the International Herald Tribune as 'the most well-known expatriate Thai in the world,' Somtow Sucharitkul is no longer an expatriate, since he has returned to Thailand after five decades of wandering the world.
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