Yangon Academy Book Fair
Myanmar Book Centre is holding a book fair at the Yangon Academy on March 23 from 9.00am to 3.00pm. Open to the public, there will be special promotions and discount prices on offer …
March 2013
Yangon Academy Book Fair
Dr Thant Myint U’s Lost Paragraph
The third printing of the Myanmar-language version of Dr Thant Myint-Us 2007 book The River of Lost Footsteps was launched on March 14, with a paragraph restored that had been censored from earlier editions …
Daw Myint Myint Khin Poetry Collection
Doctor turned Poetess Daw Myint Myint Khin released her first poetry collection in English on March 12. “Daw Myint Myint Khin retired from her job as professor at the Institute of Medicine in Mandalay in 1985. In the same year she was devastated by the death of her husband of more than 30 years, as […]
A Very Burmese BookSlam
Just as Zeyar Lynn, shrouded in darkness save for a battery operated lamp, uttered the now immortal line ‘electricity is no longer my power supply‘, the lights in the room flickered on and the crowd before him cheered and clapped their hands …
Literature Development Weekend
Nay Pyone Latt, the blogger, short story writer and activist, leaned forward in his chair and asked, “but why would i want to promote my work?”. Patrick Neate, the Whitbread Award winning novelist and man behind the global BookSlam events, paused for a moment, clearly puzzled by a comment that perhaps explains a lot about […]