As if Yangon needed to cement itself even further as a city of books, in 2017, a street of books opened on Theinbyu road on the east side of the Secretariat. The initiative of short story specialist and current Minister of Information, U Pe Myint to encourage the citys residents to embrace their literary heritage […]
Frontier magazine ran an interesting article on the fate of booksellers at Yangons Book Street and book-selling in general the other month. Book Street began in January 2017 with the support of author and Minister of Information U Pe Myint, to provide an accessible and open air market for readers at the east end of […]
The National League for Democracy came to power at the end of March 2016. Lets see what has happened for literature in the year since …