{{Short description|British scholar (born 1954)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox academic | name = David A. Smyth | image = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|01|05|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = United Kingdom | spouse = | children = | education = School of Oriental and African Studies (BA, PhD) | thesis_title = A Study of the Major Fiction of Kulāp Sāipradit (pseud. 'Sībūraphā') | thesis_url = https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/160275809.pdf | thesis_year = 1988 | doctoral_advisor = Manas Chitakasem{{br}}({{lang|th|มานัส จิตตเกษม}}) | influences = E. H. S. Simmonds | workplaces = School of Oriental and African Studies | main_interests = {{ubl|Thai language|Cambodian language|Kulap Saipradit}} }} '''David A. Smyth''' ({{IPAc-en|s|m|ai|D}}; born 5 January 1954){{r|l}} is a British scholar notable for his expertise in the field of Thai studies.
==Life== Smyth first studied Thai at the School of Oriental and African Studies, as part of an undergraduate degree in South East Asian Studies.{{r|i}} One of his tutors there was E. H. S. Simmonds.{{r|p}}
He lived in Thailand from the mid 1970s until the early 1980s, teaching English first at Thammasat University and then at Srinakharinwirot University.{{r|i}}
He received his doctorate from SOAS in 1988. His dissertation was a study of the literary works of Kulap Saipradit.{{r|p}}
For a number of years, he was a lecturer in Thai and Cambodian at SOAS.{{r|s|b}}
==Publications== ===Books=== *Smyth, David A., and Manas Chitakasem (1984). ''Linguaphone Thai Course''. London: Linguaphone Institute. {{ISBN|9780747310051}}. *Smyth, David A. (1995). ''Teach Yourself Thai''. London: Hodder Headline. {{ISBN|9780340590416}}. *Smyth, David A. (1995). ''Colloquial Cambodian''. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge. {{ISBN|9780415100069}}. *Smyth, David A., and Tran Kien (1995). ''Tuttle Practical Cambodian Dictionary''. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Publishing. {{ISBN|9780804819541}}. *Smyth, David A. (2002). [https://web.archive.org/web/20141129015343/https://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/courses/Ped_Grammar/thai_grammar.pdf ''Thai: An Essential Grammar'']. London: Routledge. {{ISBN|9780415226141}}. (Second edition published in 2014. {{ISBN|9780415510349}}.) *Smyth, David A. (2019). ''Kulap Saipradit ('Sriburapha'): Journalist and Writer in Early 20th Century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press. {{ISBN|9789748434711}}.
===Papers=== *Smyth, David A. (1984). [http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/smyth1984siburapha.pdf "Sībūraphā and Some Ups and Downs in a Literary Career"]. Paper presented to the International Conference on Thai Studies, Bangkok, 22–24 August. *Smyth, David A. (1987). [http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/smyth1987later.pdf "The Later Short Stories of Sībūraphā"]. In Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson (ed.), ''Laī Sū’ Thai: Essays in Honour of E. H. S. Simmonds'', {{pp.|98|115}}. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. *Smyth, David A. (2001). [http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/smyth2001farangs.pdf "Farangs and Siamese: A Brief History of Learning Thai"]. In M. R. Kalaya Tingsabadh and Arthur S. Abramson (eds.), ''Essays in Tai Linguistics'', {{pp.|277|285}}. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press.
===Translations=== *Saipradit, Kulap (1990). ''Behind the Painting and Other Stories''. Translated by David A. Smyth. Singapore: Oxford University Press. {{isbn|9780195889628}}. *Surangkhanang, K. (1994). ''The Prostitute''. Translated by David A. Smyth. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. {{isbn|9789676530790}}. *Saipradit, Kulap, et al. (1998). ''The Sergeant's Garland and Other Stories''. Translated by David A. Smyth and Manas Chitakasem. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. {{isbn|9789835600388}}. *Korbjitti, Chart (2003). ''No Way Out''. Translated by David A. Smyth. Nakhon Rachasima: Howling Books. {{isbn|9789749138519}}. *Navarat, M. R. Nimitmongkol (2009). ''The Dreams of an Idealist''. Translated by David A. Smyth. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books. {{isbn|9789749511619}}.
==References== <references>
<ref name=b>{{cite web|title=David A. Smyth|url=https://www.britannica.com/contributor/David-A-Smyth/5035|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115104008/https://www.britannica.com/contributor/David-A-Smyth/5035|archive-date=15 January 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name=i>{{cite web|title=Successful Thai Language Learner: David Smyth|url=https://www.expatden.com/thai/interviewing-successful-thai-language-learners-david-smyth/|website=ExpatDen|date=12 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925213617/https://www.expatden.com/thai/interviewing-successful-thai-language-learners-david-smyth/|archive-date=25 September 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name=l>{{cite web|title=Smyth, David, 1954–|url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94028949.html|publisher=Library of Congress|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204221140/https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94028949.html|archive-date=4 February 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name=p>{{cite book|last=Smyth|first=David A.|year=1988|title=A Study of the Major Fiction of Kulāp Sāipradit (pseud. 'Sībūraphā')|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/160275809.pdf|series=Unpubished doctoral dissertation|publisher=School of Oriental and African Studies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317101323/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/160275809.pdf|archive-date=17 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name=s>{{cite web|title=Dr David A Smyth|url=http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31837.php|publisher=SOAS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528050744/http://www.soas.ac.uk:80/staff/staff31837.php|archive-date=28 May 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Smyth, David A.}} Category:1954 births Category:Academics of SOAS University of London Category:Alumni of SOAS University of London Category:British orientalists Category:British literary translators Category:Living people Category:Thai studies scholars