Hakha is the capital of Chin State, Myanmars least developed region and a restricted area for foreigners without permits until 2012. With very few roads, and many of the villages clinging to remote hillsides, it is detached from the literary centres of the country …
The Chin, who live in the hills that border Bangladesh and India, like to say that Burmese literature was born from peace, while Chin literature was born from war. The first known Burmese text is the 12th Century Myazedi stone in Bagan, which lists the deeds and donations of a prince in memory of the […]
Originally a publisher of respected literary fiction, the wife and husband team have expanded their business into a small, attractive bookshop. Though the bookshop is for Burmese readers and doesnt sell English language books by Myanmar writers …
With such a high concentration of colonial era buildings it can be so easy to walk pass a building and be utterly unaware of its former significance to the city. The Guardian Press Building is made even more anonymous by relatively recent cladding which hides most of its prominent architectural structures making it appear as […]
Billed as the biggest of its kind in South East Asia, Yangon Book Plaza is certainly large. Opened in 2017 by Myay Hmone Lwin, a writer and award winning publisher himself, the 20,000 square feet showcases nearly a dozen bookshops in an open plan floor area.
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