As the eponymous k states in the prologue, this is not a book of his life but rather of Burma in the 1920s, and yet it inevitably returns to him, and his family, his friends as they navigate a turbulent time in Myanmar, a time of literary renaissance and anti-colonial political awakenings …
The official organisation for publishers and booksellers in Myanmar, the MPBA grew out of the dissolution of the old, Ministry of Information controlled Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association in July 2012 …
Kyaw Mya Than (1930 2000) was a novelist and non-fiction writer of the realist tradition. In the 1950s parliamentary era he wrote political articles under the pen name Ye Baw Than before joining the staff of Crime Magazine in 1956, a popular journal at the time. He here found the theme that would become a […]
A slim tour of famous buildings and sites in Yangon. While there is a loose theme tying the book together one of buildings and their purpose the string is slack and fails to pull the seemingly arbitrary architectural samples in a coherent manner …
Mali Hpungtsi Breeze over the Irrawaddy is the longest running Jinghpaw language literary journal from Kachin State, in the far north of Myanmar …
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