Ma Sandaris an architect by trade and a writer by choice. She made a name for herself with the publication of Innocence of Youth, a novel on the lives of students at the Yangon Institute of Technology in 1972. She has gone on to publish 50 short stories and 13 novels, winning 3 National Literary […]
A superb collection of 20 short stories that roam across lower Myanmar, from the capital to the coast to unnamed villages. Ever-present in all of them are the women: the wife,the aunt, the daughter and how their clans rely on them. This is a collection undoubtedly of Myanmar, a voice that deserves to be joined […]
Along with poetry, short stories are the most popular form of literary expression in Myanmar. Many of the greats of the Burmese literary canon from the 1920s onwards have dabbled in both …