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Sarpay Beikmann

Exploring Burma’s Bookshops: Sarpay Beikmann

Exploring Burma’s Bookshops: Sarpay Beikmann

There seems to be uncertainty as to when the Sarpay Beikman bookshop began. As the book-selling arm of the Burma Translation Society which was renamed to Sarpay Beikmann (House of Literature) either somewhere between 1954 and 1962, it has always been owned by the state …

Biographical Dictionary of Myanmar Writers

Biographical Dictionary of Myanmar Writers

Every so often I read an article from one of the Myanmar newspapers and think, why couldnt they have done that a little sooner. Too late for me now, but Sarpay Beikmann have come out with a much needed book, an English language biographical dictionary of 20th Century Myanmar writers …