Ko Nyein (Mandalay) is a Modernist poet and short story writer. Born in 1945 in the city after which he takes his pen-name, his first poems appeared in the respected Moe Way magazine, such as ‘A Boat with Three Men’, and ‘A Man with a Rickshaw’ and later in the 1990’s his short stories were […]
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 …
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 1960’s after the military coup and for his contribution in the birth of a more modern stylistic framing of the role poetry could play in 1970’s Myanmar […]
U Win Pe is a prolific author, poet and journalist. Born in 1927 in the then Burmese capital Rangoon, raised further north in Monywa and attended primary school at the prestigious St Joseph boarding school in the colonial summer retreat town of Pyin Oo Lwin …