Burmese Bestsellers in the Time of Covid
Covid 19 may have forced the bookshops in Yangon to close, but that hasn’t stopped the publication of this year’s most anticipated book …
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Burmese Bestsellers in the Time of Covid
Wendy Law Yone – Saving Face
In the latest edition of the Time Literary Supplement, Burmese-American author Wendy Law Yone writes of the difficulties in translating her novel ‘The Road to Wanting’ into Burmese and the power of social media to shift culpability from the guilty to the innocent …
How to Sell Books Across Myanmar
Myay Hmone Lwin is a busy man. On top of running his own publishers, NDSP, a bookshop at Pearl Condo, the Yangon Book Plaza in downtown, a nascent translation association and the Irrawaddy Literature Festival he is also the founder of WE Distribution, a book delivery service …
New Myanmar Publishing Imprint
Publisher San Mon Aung has announced the launch of Exit Books, an imprint of his house, Ngar Doe Sar Pay (Our Literature). According to Eleven Media, the imprint will focus on the Young Adult market with acquisitions of new works in Burmese and translations of bestsellers from the West …