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Abstract
‘Thai English literature’ has not been widely recognized because of the controversial notion of ‘Thai English’. This paper thus investigates features of stylistic creativity in English short stories and novels written by Thai authors in order to identify indicators for a Thai variety of English. The features are interpreted using the approaches of World Englishes by Kachru and Strevens. It was found that the selected Thai writers highlight their English fiction with strategies of stylistic and textual innovations similar to those used by writers of other New Englishes but with uniquely indicative features for a developing non-native variety of English in the Expanding Circle: contextual and rhetorical nativization, thought patterns in Thai writing styles, Thai identity construction, multilingual code repertoire, transcultural creativity, localization of English literary forms, and Thai cultural loading of the English language. These characteristics can be found in a canon of Thai English literary discourse.