Buppha Nimmanhemin

Illustration — หม่อมหลวงบุปผา นิมมานเหมินท์ Mom Luang Buppha Nimmanhemin Kunchon (1905 – 1963), writing under the pen name Dokmai Sot, was the most important Thai woman novelist in the period before World War II. The second youngest child of Chao Phraya Thewet, a high-ranking official who had 32 children, she was educated at home and at a Catholic convent primary school in Bangkok. When she was five years old, her mother Mom Malai left Chao Phraya Thewet to marry a Western foreigner; Dō̜kmai Sot remained with her father. Her earlier novels were romances but her later work, set in the world of the Thai elite, deals with moral issues in a changing world, based on Buddhist values.

Also recorded as Buppha Kunchon Nimmanhemin · Dokmai Sot · Dō̜kmāi Sot