June 2020
The Story of the Real First Novel Written in Myanmar
Maung Yin Maung and Ma Me Ma by James Hla Gyaw is widely regarded as the first novel written by a citizen of Myanmar, and yet in the introduction to the first English translation produced in 2014, it is described as a novel being the first in the language.
Burmese Bestsellers in the Time of Covid
Covid 19 may have forced the bookshops in Yangon to close, but that hasnt stopped the publication of this years most anticipated book
The Legendary Book of Kalay
The first time I saw it, the pages had already yellowed with age. The olive-green cover had faded and the binding had gone, the pages held together with sticky tape. She pulled it from a packet sleeve, kept in a cupboard in a back room …