Kayaw Literature and Culture Committee
The smallest of the three main ethnic communities from Kayah State on Myanmars eastern border with Thailand, the Kayaws literature and culture committee is also the oldest …
Literary
Kayaw Literature and Culture Committee
Writer Profile: Ma Ju
Ma Ju(b. 1958): Like her younger contemporary Ma Thida, Ma Ju is a medical doctor by training though more well known as one of Myanmars leading women writers. She is renowned for her position on gender equality and female empowerment, themes often mirrored in her strong female characters and …
Sadaik Short Reviews: The Rainy Season Setting
In this slim chapbook a sense of place is everywhere, guided by the subtleness of San Oos voice which shifts, from civility to a harshness unexpected. Throughout, the senses are lulled by a cadence brought on repetitious cycles, yet, Nyunt Wai Moes impressive translation, never falters, it never bores. The Rainy Season Setting is to […]
Myanmar Poets Union
Formed out of the ashes of the government controlled Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association in 2013, the MPU began life as a place for poets to meet, argue and fight over the direction of the form in Myanmar …
Writer Profile: Aung Cheimt
Aung Cheimt(b.1948) is a poet, translator and former political prisoner. Known as a member of the Revolutionary Poets, this epithet come from both his time incarcerated in the 1960s after the military coup and for his contribution in the birth of a more modern stylistic framing of the role poetry could play in 1970s Myanmar […]