Krisna Asoksin

Sukanya Cholasuek (สุกัญญา ชลศึกษ์, born 1931), writing under the pen name Krisna Asoksin, is a Thai novelist. She has written about 150 novels and many other short stories. Her 1980 novel Poon Pid Thong (ปูนปิดทอง) won the S.E.A. Write Award in 1985, and she was named National Artist in literature in 1988. Most of her early work has been described as "domestic drama", while her more recent output has taken on social and political themes. Many of her novels have been adapted as well-known Thai television soap operas, each with multiple remakes, including Namphueng Khom, Mia Luang and Sawan Biang.