Jadet Kamjorndet was born in Surat Thani Province, in the south of Thailand. In 2008, his short fiction chapbook Hanuman Tramples the City won the Thailand Indy Book Award. Three years later, his first book-length work of short fiction It is Too Hot to Sit in the Sun Drinking Coffee won the Southeast Asian Writers Award. Selections of this work were translated by Marcel Barang. In 2020, Jadet Kamjorndet won the SEA Write Award again for another work of short fiction, The Night of the Year of the Tiger and Other Animal Stories. His most recent novel, Sex Doll Goddess, was shortlisted for the 2023 7 Book Award. He is currently at work on a new novel.
