Douangdeuane Bounyavong

Who is Douangdeuane Bounyavong?

Douangdeuane Bounyavong, pen name Dok Ked, is a Laotian writer. She is the widow of Outhine Bounyavong and has written poems, several textiles books and novels and transcribed numerous traditional stories, of which the best-known is Kam Pha Phi Noi. She is engaged in literacy, e.g. by participating at the Big Brother Mouse project, and participates on running a publishing house and a shop providing children’s books in Lao language.

In 2005, she was awarded with the Fukukoa Art and Culture Prize.