--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates Thai Writer Chote Praepan description: On what would have been his 111th birthday, Google honors the titan of Thai letters with a special Doodle canonical: https://time.com/5277404/chote-praepan-thailand-google-doodle/ author: Eli Meixler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-15T02:50:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:52.514Z og:title: Here's What to Know About Thai Writer Chote Praepan og:description: From humble beginnings to serial success og:url: https://time.com/5277404/chote-praepan-thailand-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3ea53d8c416fbab4/698930668fd2ee718f35b9e6/chote-praepans-111th-birthday-6661820604481536-2x.png?branch=production&width=818&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 818 og:image:height: 460 og:image:alt: chote-praepans-111th-birthday-6661820604481536-2x og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What to Know About Thai Writer Chote Praepan twitter:description: From humble beginnings to serial success twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3ea53d8c416fbab4/698930668fd2ee718f35b9e6/chote-praepans-111th-birthday-6661820604481536-2x.png?branch=production&width=818&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chote Praepan Went From Humble Beginnings to Serial Success. 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Today, on what would have been his 111th birthday, Google honors the titan of Thai letters with a special Doodle. Commonly known by his pen name “Yacob” (or “Jacob”), Chote Praepan was born into a poor family in 1907\. Despite his humble beginnings, he would go on to become one of the most influential Thai writers of the 20th century, celebrated for his short stories, essays, and work as a newspaper editor. ## A serialized sensation Many of Yacob’s works were serialized in newspapers, allowing him to gain a substantial following of readers across the country who hungered every week for the next installment. But it was his novel _Phu Chana Sibthid_ (“The Man Who Gained Victory in Ten Directions”), an eight-volume epic of love and military conquest set in the 16th century Burmese royal court, that earned him lasting fame. The series was so popular that crowds of admiring fans would wait outside the publishing house when a new chapter was scheduled for release. The novel has since been adapted into numerous films, operas and TV series. Yacob [died](http://www.ipsr.mahidol.ac.th/ipsrbeta/FileUpload/PDF/Report-File-546.pdf) of tuberculosis in 1956 at the age of just 48, but his work has been memorialized in the hearts of generations of Thai readers. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5277404/chote-praepan-thailand-google-doodle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5277404/chote-praepan-thailand-google-doodle/"},"headline":"Chote Praepan Went From Humble Beginnings to Serial Success. 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