In 1996 Dara Kanlagna was awarded the Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture and Community for her passionate work with the manuscripts project.
[2] The project resulted in the book Pha phae ni mi tamnan / Legends in the Weaving.
[5] Duangchampa's prize-winning poetry book collection, Hak dok… chung bok ma, was published in 2005.
[2] For her collection of poems with the title Hak dok... chung bok ma (Vientiane, 2005) Dara Kanlagna received the Southeast Asia Write Award in 2010.
She wrote the poems in honour of her mother, who raised her and her thirteen siblings with great patience and determination amid hardship and poverty and provided them with a good education despite being illiterate herself.