Kyaw Zwa Moe’s Prison Memoir

The audience for political prisoner memoirs hasn’t yet dimmed in Myanmar, though its still rare to find one in English …

Kyaw Zwa Moe, (8 years in Insein and Tharawaddy Prison) is the Managing Editor of the English edition of the Irrawaddy Journal.  He has selected 37 pieces, written on his experiences as a prisoner, published by the Irrawaddy over the last 18 years and compiled them into a singe work titled Cell, Exile and the New Burma.

Myanmar Times has the rest of the info and an interview with U Kyaw Zwa Moe here.

The book can be bought from the excellent Myanmar Book Centre