Chaw Ei Man (Mandalay) was born in 1973. Her first short story No Affection was published in Myit Tan Shin magazine in 1998 and two years later her first full collection titled Realistic Dreams and Other Stories, culminating in a prestigious Shwe Amyutae award for Fly to Mandalay.
This is a fantastic, paid, opportunity for Burmese to English literary translators to work on a new collection of short stories from Myanmar. I have copied the announcement below from the collections editor, Alfred Birnbaum, but am wary of putting his private email contact address publicly. So if anyone is interested please just use the […]
A few months ago I made a brief post on the recipients of this years English PEN translation award winners, one of which was the successful funding of a new collection of short stories from Burma, edited by Alfred Birnbaum and to be published by Strangers Press in the UK …
Mra Hninziis a renowned Burmese to English to Burmese translator. She was head of the foreign relations division at the department of immigration from 2000 2005, after she retired from government service she began her translation career. Her translated books include A brief History of Globalisationby Phillippe Legrain (which won the Sarpay Beikmann translation […]