Rewat Panpipat (Thailand)
Novelist,poet. Winner of the SEA Write Award in 2004 for a collection of poems, Reminiscence of the River. Between 2005 and 2008, Rewat Panpipat was poetry editor of the Khom Chat Luek daily newspaper. He occasionally serves as a judging panel member at some local literary contests. So far he has published about 20 literary works which have earned him more than 10 national and regional awards. Several of his poems have been translated into English, Vietnamese, Chinese and Malay, and some of his short stories into English. He received the Silpathorn Artist Award from the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Thai Ministry of Culture, in 2014.