When a country opens up after isolation or conflict, a type of literature is usually not far behind. From Cambodia, its hard to find works in English that dont cover the Khmer Rouge years …
I chose Interesting Places of the Past in Yangon for the first of the non-fiction reviews for its every-book qualities. There is a common thread in many non-fiction books in translation from Myanmar …
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 …
One of the hopes of my book, The People Elsewhere, was to shine a light on the misconception that all languages and literature from the ethnic nationality groups in Myanmar had been suppressed by successive juntas over fifty years. The reality is much more complicated of course …
There is no shortage of books on the market that delve into the life of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Peter Pophams ‘The Lady and the Peacock’ and his more recent ‘The Lady and the Generals’, Justin Wintles ‘Perfect Hostage’, Bertil Lintners ‘Aung San Suu Kyi and Burmas Struggle for Democracy’ among them …