Douangdeuane Bounyavong ( lo, ດວງເດືອນ ບຸນຍາວົງສ; ''Dūangdư̄an Bunyāvong''; born 11 June 1947, also known by her maiden name Douangdeuane Viravong),

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, known for a contemporary Laotian fiction writer. She has written poems, several textiles books and novels and transcribed numerous traditional stories, of which the best-known is Kam Pha Phi Noi ('The Little Orphan and the Spirit’). She is engaged in

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, e.g. by participating at the

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project, and participates on running a publishing house and a shop providing children's books in

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. In 2005, Peace Women Across the Globe selected her as one of the thousand peace women from Asia Pacific region. She was awarded with the ''Fukukoa Art and Culture Prize''. She is also a recipient of the

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Bibliography

Works in Lao language

* Dō̜kkēt '' 'Athan hǣng phongphai'' Viangchan: Bō̜risat Phainām Kānphim læ Khō̜mphiutœ, 1995 (novel) * Dō̜kkēt ''Dō̜k sutthāi lư̄ ngām'' ientiane Kom Vannakhadī læ Vatthanatham Mahāson, 1995 (biography of Mari Viravong, the mother of the author) * Douangdeuane Bounyavong et al. ''Phǣnphan lāi nai sin sāimai = Infinite Design: The Art of Silk'' Vientiane: Lao Women's Union, 1995 (Lao/English) * Douangdeuane Bounyavong ''Thao Hung Khun Cheuang, Weeraburut song phang khong he Hero of the Two Sides of the Mekong River Banks' Bangkok: Phikkhanet Printing Center, 1995 * Douangdeuane Bounyavong ''Vatchanānukom pakō̜p hūp'' Vientiane: K. S. Kanphim, 1998 (pictorial dictionary for children) * Dō̜kkēt ''Chotmāi nī khō̜ fāk thœng ʻāi: hōm lư̄angsan'' Vientiane: Dokket, 2004 (Collection of short stories) * Douangdeuane Bounyavong et al. ''Thao Hung Thao Cheuang Epic: Adaptation into Modern Prose'' Vientiane: The National Library of Laos, 2000 (text in Lao, parts in English) * Douangdeuane Bounyavong, Inkiane Dejvongsa ''Mư̄a mǣ khao khuk: lưangching khō̜ng phūying khonnưng = When Mother Was In Prison'' Vientiane: Dokked, 2004 (Lao/English)

Works in English language

* Douangdeuane Bounyavong, Othong Khaminxu '' Traditions and rites in Thao Hung epic'' Vientiane: Vannasin, 1991 * Douangdeuane Bounyavong ''A comparative study on the political ideology expressed in the Thao Hung Thao Cheaung epic, with reference to local chronicle of Lao-Thai groups'' Tokyo: Institute of Asian Cultures – Sophia University, 1995 * Duang Deuane Bounyavong, Kham Pin Phiatheb ''Report on the survey and situation regarding the trafficking of children in Lao PDR'' Vientiane: PDR, 1995 (abridged version of a UNICEF report) * Douangdeuane Bounyavong et al. ''Legends in the Weaving'' Vientiane: Dokked, 2001 * Douangdeuane Bounyavong ''Lao textiles: prayers floating on fabric'' Fukuoka-shi: Fukuoka Art Museum, 2005 (English/Japanese)

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