Zakariya Amataya is a Muslim poet in a Buddhist country. He was born 35 years ago in the Bacho (Narathiwaat) district of southern Thailand, which has been violently torn apart by resentment over language, religion and nationalism for many years. He's in the middle of that.

In 2010, he received the SEA Write Award Thailand for his poetry collection 'No Women in Poetry'; the title is a reference to one of his poems. The bundle is now in front of me. This award is all the more remarkable because Thai is not his native language. He grew up with a dialect of Malay.

He spent most of his adult life in Bangkok and not all his poems are about the South, but also about other conflicts in the world, two of which are about Iraq, one about a sniper with a pained conscience and one from the perspective of a child.

The remainder of the article has been discontinued due to risk of copyright infringement, but is available upon request.

2 Responses to “Zakariya Amataya, Muslim Poet in a Buddhist Country”

  1. Maud Lebert says up

    Super Tina!
    There is a lot of work involved and the result can be seen. I think it's great that another aspect of Thailand is also discussed on this blog in this way. Keep it up, I enjoy reading it.
    Greetings
    Maud

  2. Paul says up

    Dear Tina,
    I wanted to respond completely silent from the beauty of your article with “Wonderful Tino, Thanks Paul” but the robot that checks the comments on Thailand blog thought it was too short a text in which I apparently couldn't say anything. Well then we satisfy the robot with this longer message, as long as my opinion between the braces remains intact.
    Sincerely, Paul


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