Douangdeuane Bounyavong

Her best known story is Kam Pha Phi Noi ('The Little Orphan and the Spirit’).

Her father, Sila Viravong, was a prominent Lao scholar who designed the flag of the country.

She married Outhine Bounyavong, a contemporary Laotian fiction writer.

[2] She has written poems, several textiles books and novels and transcribed numerous traditional stories, of which the best-known is Kam Pha Phi Noi ('The Little Orphan and the Spirit’).

[3][4] She is engaged in literacy,[5] e.g. by participating at the Big Brother Mouse project,[6] and participates on running a publishing house and a shop providing children's books in the Lao language.