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ABOUT
US
Brief Biography Of Collin Piprell
Editorial
Director
Artasia Press Co. Ltd.
E-mail:
cpipre@mozart.inet.co.th
Web: http://www.collinpiprell.com/
Collin Piprell
is a Canadian writer and editor based in Bangkok. He has also
lived in England, where he did graduate work at Oxford, and
in Kuwait, where he learned to sail, waterski, and make a
credible red wine in plastic garbage bins.
Before and
after the Oxford and Kuwait years, Collin enjoyed a broad
sampling of the employment world, including experience on
four jobs as a driller and stope leader in mines and tunnels
in Ontario and Quebec. Over the past fourteen years or so,
he has established himself in what is his true m?tier. In
addition to the hundreds of published articles he has written
on a wide variety of topics, Collin is the author of three
novels, a collection of occasional pieces, a diving guide
to Thailand, another book on diving, and a book on Thailand's
coral reefs. He has also co-authored a book on Thailand's
national parks.
He's currently
at work on a fourth novel.
Books by Collin Piprell:
* Yawn (A Thriller) Bangkok: Asia Books, 2000
* Kicking Dogs (Bangkok: Asia Books, 2001)
* Bangkok Knights (Bangkok: Asia Books, 2001)
* Bangkok Old Hand (Bangkok: Post Books, 1993)
* Diving in Thailand (Singapore: Times Editions; U.S.A.: Hippocrene
Books, 1994, 2000), photographs by Ashley J. Boyd.
* Thailand's Coral Reefs (Bangkok: White Lotus, 1993), photographs
by Ashley J. Boyd.
* Thailand: The Kingdom Beneath the Sea (Bangkok: Artasia
Press, 1991), photographs by Ashley J. Boyd.
* National Parks Thailand (Bangkok: IFPC, 1993, 1995), with
Denis Gray and Mark Graham.
Click
here for a more detailed CV.
Brief
Biography Of John Everingham
Managing
Director
Artasia Press Co. Ltd.
E-mail: john@aapress.net
Born in
Australia in 1949, John was in high school in 1966 when the
urge to travel overcame the desire to study. He dropped out
of school and left home at 16 years old, and left Australia
on the traditional journey to London, but by motorcycle.
His 300cc
motorcycle brought him into Thailand and Laos in 1967, then
to Vietnam in early 1968 where he found himself in the famous
Viet Cong TET offensive on Saigon. Soon he became friends
with the photo-journalism crowd, and began taking photos to
sell to the wire services and visiting journalists. From there
he took up writing himself, and by the end of the war in 1975
was in Laos working as reporter for the BBC, the Far Eastern
Economic Review and Newsweek.
For two
years, from 1975 and 1977, he was the only western journalist-photographer
remaining in the 3 newly 'liberated' countries of Indochina.
That ended suddenly in 1977 when the Lao communists threw
him into jail, then out of the country, calling him a CIA
spy.
From 1978,
when he moved to Bangkok, he turned increasingly to magazine
work, while moving out of journalism to his first love, photography.
He has been based in Bangkok ever since, specializing on the
S.E. Asian region for European and US magazines. In the late
1980's he began publishing himself; first postcards, then
books, and now magazines. His company ArtAsia Press is credited
with publishing some of the highest quality periodicals in
Thailand, including Phuket Magazine, Fah Thai, and Samui Magazine.
John is
the BLACK STAR correspondent in Thailand. Magazines in which
he has been published include: NEWSWEEK, TIME, The SMITHSONIAN,
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE, GEO (Germany),
GEO (France), GEO (Spain), HARPERS, STERN, countless airline
magazines, and many more around the world.
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