World Book Day – British Council
The British Council in Yangon will be celebrating World Book Day on the 25th April downstairs in their library ..
Myanmar
World Book Day – British Council
Writing in Burma: A New Year, Old Fears
I was heading East from Hpa-an, the sluggish capital of Burma’s Karen State, towards a monastery infamous for the alleged body-napping of a dead monk by the Burmese military in the late 1990’s, when i heard of the death of the freelance journalist, Ko Par Gyi. In the car with me was a former political […]
Article: On Burmese Literary Pen Names
‘U Win Tun may not have had his face emblazoned on T-shirts sold for Westerners outside Yangons tourist shopping mecca of Scott Market, but for the Burmese, he was one of a trio of democratic heroes, just as iconic as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Min Ko Naing, having spent nineteen years in prison […]
On The Act Of Insanity
‘I used to watch him from my balcony, spinning, rotating like a shrunken ballerina, arms flailing, hands flapping, like a playground helicopter, bright yellow hair staining the road like the spark of a fresh match. Nobody took any notice of him; passers-by passed him by without a flinch, without a second thought. No curiosity, no […]
Article: On Literary Talk Shows in Myanmar
‘As a puny winter sun settled over the morning Irrawaddy river, eight men stood up, smoothed their winter coats, brushing off crumbs of cake and errant cheroot ash, and one by one introduced themselves’ My May article for the Diplomat journal on recent forced cancellations of literary events in Myanmar