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S. P. Somtow (a rearrangement of his real name Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; Thai: สมเถา สุจริตกุล; RTGS : Somthao Sucharitkun; born December 30, 1952) is a Thai-American musical composer, and a science fiction, fantasy, and horror author writing in English as both Somtow Sucharitkul and S. P. Somtow.
Born in Bangkok, Somtow grew up in Europe and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. His first career was in music and in the 1970s he acquired a reputation as a revolutionary composer, the first to combine Thai and Western instruments in radical new sonorities.
S.P. Somtow has 157 books on Goodreads with 26406 ratings. S.P. Somtow’s most popular book is Vampire Junction.
After forty years, S.P. Somtow has produced a fifth novel in the Chronicles of the High Inquest, one of the most lauded galactic empire epics of the 1980s.
S.P. Somtow (Somtow Sucharitkul). 4,048 likes · 9 talking about this. This is the official page of author S.P. Somtow and composer Somtow Sucharitkul....
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Somtow, S P. Entry updated 16 January 2023. Tagged: Author. Working name of Thai composer/conductor and author Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul (1952- ), who has had a full double career, his first professional appearance as a conductor being at the age of nineteen; he used his actual surname from the beginning of his career to 1985, when he ...
Apr 12, 2023 · Called by the Bangkok Post "the Thai person known by name to most people in the world," S.P. Somtow is an author, composer, filmmaker, and international media personality whose dazzling talents and acerbic wit have entertained and enlightened fans the world over.
