Though the Mon secured their place in world history through the introduction of Buddhism and the first indigenous script to South East Asia, this place is little known and only barely recorded by the Mon themselves …
Mi Mi Khaing’s memoir still stands as a classic of Burmese non-fiction, though it’s been 70 years since its initial publication. A multi-generational memoir, it follows the life of the author’s elite non-typical family …
Moe Linn, a life-long democracy activist, was hired as Aung San Suu Kyi’s cook after house arrest in the 90’s and spent the next 20 years in close company with her. Up Close is a collection of 24 articles written by Moe Lin and published in 2011 and 2012 with original pieces, diary entries and […]
While many imported literary forms have been adapted by Burmese writers, it is the ‘wuthu saungbar’ which the writers have embraced and perfected. A masterwork of the blend in fact and fiction, this particular road, begun by Ludu U Hla in the 1950s, follows Mya Than Tint on a 1980’s literary tour of the country […]
A retired Colonel, and purged associate of former Military Intelligence chief Gen Khin Nyunt, U Hla Min goes to great effort to justify the 1990 military coup and the positive development it allegedly bought to the nation in the years after …