Prabda Yoon

Born in Bangkok in 1973, Prabda Yoon went on to study graphic design, painting and experimental filmmaking at the Cooper Union in New York City and returned to Thailand in 1998. He is widely known in Thailand as a writer and translator. His story collection, Kwam Na Ja Pen (Probability), won the prestigious S.E.A. Write Award in 2002, when he was 29. Some of his books and stories have been translated into Japanese. He has translated numerous modern western classics such as The Catcher in the Rye, A Clockwork Orange, and Lolita. Prabda is also a prolific book designer, having worked as a graphic designer continuously since his New York days. In 2004, he co-founded a small publishing imprint called Typhoon Books and in 2012 an independent bookshop called Bookmoby Readers' Cafe. Prabda was for a time a film essayist for an English newspaper in Thailand, but it was a chance meeting with the "Thai New Wave" director Pen-ek Ratanaruang that initiated his involvement with the Thai film industry. He was asked by Pen-ek to collaborate on a screenplay that eventually became the film "Last Life in the Universe". Motel Mist is his first feature-length film.