James Hla Gyaw wrote himself into history with his story of Maung Yin Maung and Ma Me Ma. Prior to its publication, literature in Myanmar was the reserve of monasteries and palaces …
More than once someone has remarked to me that everyone in Burma is a poet. The last to do so was Petr Lom, the director of Burma Storybook as we walked down 40th street in Yangon …
Ive often struggled to reconcile the titles of Burmese books in English translation to their content. A lot of the time I see no connection, no matter how hard I try to make it fit and just assume that in the original Burmese it makes sense …