U Thaw Kaung

U Thaw Kaung -Literary Legend

The first time I met U Thaw Kaung, writer, librarian, collector and preserver, he sat alone on a bench under a large tree in a garden that slipped into Inya Lake.� There were other writers present, National Literature Award winners, former literary prisoners, many I knew, some I didn�t but it was U Thaw Kaung […]

Biographical Dictionary of Myanmar Writers

Every so often I read an article from one of the Myanmar newspapers and think, why couldn�t 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 …