Douangdeuane Bounyavong

Douangdeuane Bounyavong (Lao ດວງເດືອນ ບຸນຍາວົງສ Dūangdư̄an Bunyāvong, born 11 June 1947, also known by her maiden name Douangdeuane Viravong), pen name Dok Ked (Dō̜kkēt), is a Laotian writer. She is the widow of Outhine Bounyavong and 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’). She is engaged in literacy, e.g. by participating at the Big Brother Mouse project, and participates on running a publishing house and a shop providing children’s books in Lao language.

In 2005, she was awarded with the Fukukoa Art and Culture Prize.