Buddhist-majority Thailand recently stunned the country?s literary scene by giving its prestigious Southeast Asian Writers Award to, for the first time, a Muslim author who is also a struggling free-verse poet influenced by Allen Ginsberg, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud.
Long-haired, wispy-bearded Zakariya Amataya says he has difficulty paying the rent for his 1,500 baht/month room in a working class neighborhood on the Thonburi side of Bangkok's Chao Phraya river.
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