Two-time S.E.A. Write Award winner for Thai literature Win Lyovarin was born in southern Thailand in 1956, graduated from Chulalongkorn University in architecture, and received a master’s degree from Thammasat University. Now a full-time writer, he has worked as an architect in New York and as creative director of an advertising agency in Thailand. His body of work, including many novels and short stories, are known to challenge readers to think critically.