When a country opens up after isolation or conflict, a type of literature is usually not far behind. From Cambodia, its hard to find works in English that dont cover the Khmer Rouge years …
The first time I met U Thaw Kaung, writer, librarian, collector and preserver, he sat alone on a bench under a large tree in a garden that slipped into Inya Lake. There were other writers present, National Literature Award winners, former literary prisoners, many I knew, some I didnt but it was U Thaw Kaung […]
I chose Interesting Places of the Past in Yangon for the first of the non-fiction reviews for its every-book qualities. There is a common thread in many non-fiction books in translation from Myanmar …
Min Yar Moe (b. 1977) grew up in Thoung Pha Lu Village, Thanbuzayat Township in Mon State. After finishing middle school, he began to borrow banned Mon language books, printed in Thailand and smuggled across the nearby border by Mon political and cultural organisations …
In the wake of several recent years of intra-religious conflict in Myanmar comes a compilation of essays, stories and poetry exploring a time when different religious communities lived supposedly side by side in peace …