Awards

• Runner-up for Foreword INDIES 2021 Bronze Medal for Graphic Novels & Comics 2022 (United States)
• Short-listed for Foreword INDIES 2021 Finalist for Graphic Novels & Comics 2022 (United States)
• Winner of 2022 PROSE Award awarded by the American Association of Publishers 2022 (United States)
• Winner of 2024 Kate Browne Creativity in Research Award Awarded by Society for Economic Anthropology 2024 (United States)
• Winner of Best Read for the General Public Accolade in the IBP 2023 for Social Sciences Awarded by International Convention of Asia Scholars 2024 (Netherlands)

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"""The artwork is at least as important as text. Sara Fabbri’s colored line drawings give the tale an urgency that words themselves cannot convey."" -- Peter Gordon * <em>Asian Review of Books</em> * ""Shades of hope and humor glimmer amid the forces of inequity and impunity depicted in this memorable book that homes in on the rich lives of ordinary people, those who the country's rulers are meant to serve."" -- David Hopkins * <em>Nikkei Asia</em> * ""This book is a triumph."" -- Chris Baker * <em>Bangkok Post</em> * “Well informed and captivating. Much more than a didactic good-versus-evil tale, The King of Bangkok does justice to the complex people who animate a country that many of us would do well to know better.” -- Rosalie Metro, University of Missouri-Columbia * <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em> *"

Thailand's rural and migrant workers have been disenfranchised, left in the margins of state-sanctioned history and development. Here, in the interstitial space between these rich panels, from the gutters to the page, the acute and enlightening graphic novel The King of Bangkok admirably provides not only a voice to the silenced but also substance and texture to their invisibilized, broken bodies. - Nicolas Verstappen, lecturer and comics scholar, Chulalongkorn University and author of The Art of Thai Comics: A Century of Strips and Stripes

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Claudio Sopranzetti is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Central European University. He is the author of Owners of the Map, winner of the 2019 Margaret Mead Award. Sara Fabbri is an illustrator and editorial designer, currently working as Art Director for Linus, an Italian comics magazine. Chiara Natalucci is an interpreter and translator of Russian and English, currently teaching English at a secondary school in Italy.

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