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Yama Zatdaw (Burmese: ရာမဇာတ်တော်, pronounced [jàma̰ zaʔ tɔ̀]), unofficially Myanmar's national epic, is the Burmese version of the Ramayana and Dasaratha Jataka. There are nine known pieces of the Yama Zatdaw in Myanmar.
English literature was still relatively inaccessible although both English and Burmese, in a curriculum called Anglo-Vernacular, was now taught in schools. [1] Despite the fact that Burmese literature was well entrenched in Burmese culture, the lack of patrons to support literature slowed its further development.
Phet Sein Kun Taung Shwe Wuttu-to Mya (Burmese: ဖက်စိမ်းကွမ်းတောင် ရွှေဝတ္ထုတိုများ, pronounced [pʰɛʔ séɪɰ̃ ɡʊ́ɰ̃ dàʊɰ̃ ʃwè wʊʔtʰṵ dò mjá]) is a 2003 collection of 15 short stories by Khin Khin Htoo.
Born Mya Than on 23 May 1929 in Myaing, Pakokku Township, Magway Division, Myanmar, he was the eldest of seven children to Paw Tint and his wife Hlaing.. Mya Than Tint entered Rangoon University in 1948, the year Burma gained independence from Great Britain, and received a degree in philosophy, political science and English literature in 1954.
Khin Khin Htoo (Burmese: ခင်ခင်ထူး; MLCTS: khin. khin: htoo., IPA: [kʰɪ̀ɰ̃ kʰɪ̀ɰ̃ tʰú]; born 17 December 1965) is a Mandalay-based Myanmar National Literature Award winning writer. Her works are known for their coverage of the traditional Burmese culture, and beauty of Burmese people of Upper Myanmar. She is the ...
Chit Oo Nyo was born Kyaw Swar on 30 December 1947 in Mandalay, Myanmar, the oldest of the seven children, to parents U Shwe Daung Nyo and Daw Sein Yin. [2] Called Kyaw Kyaw when young, [1] he grew up with stories told by his grandma, Daw Aye Kyin, a headmistress at a primary school. When he learnt reading at school, he visited the school ...
The most common mythological being is the Belu, an ogre. The popularity of the Belu is due to the Yama Zatdaw, the Burmese version of the Ramayana, a very popular play in Myanmar, and also their roles in the Jatakas. A Thaman Chah or were-tiger, from a 19th-century Burmese watercolour
A popular film was made based on this short story. This Heat is about the misery and grief of an old unmarried woman who works like a maid doing the work of a wife for her older unmarried father. In the short story A Slow Stream of Thoughts a woman's husband and her son-in-law both take second wives. She writes of all the suffering that the old ...