Writer Profile: Sein Sein
Sein Sein (b.1928 – 1972) was one of the most successful of the second generation of 20th Century female Burmese writers (a generation that included Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay and Khin Hnin Yu) …
December 2019
Writer Profile: Sein Sein
Sadaik Short Reviews: A Short Mon History
Though the Mon secured their place in world history through the introduction of Buddhism and the first indigenous script to South East Asia, this place is little known and only barely recorded by the Mon themselves …
Exploring Burma’s Bookshops: Sarpay Lawka
Sarpay Lawka (World of Books) is the granddaddy of bookshops in Yangon. Though there maybe one or two specialist shops focussing on Buddhist liturgical texts that are older, Sarpay Lawka is accepted as the oldest general trade bookshop …
Khokant Culture and Literature Association
Descendants of Ming royalists fleeing the Manchu conquerors in China, the Khokant are ethnic Chinese who live in a thin strip of land along Myanmars north eastern Shan State. Like many of the ethnic communities they have endured decades of conflict, though unlike many of the ethnic groups their language and literature has escaped relatively […]
Writer Profile: Za Wa Na
Za Wa Na (real name U Thein) was born 1911. One of Myanmars earliest comedic and satirical writers, he made his name at the age of 24 with the publication of College Student a semi-fictional account of a student and his experiences at college. …
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