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Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts: Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition

Ellen Wiles

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780231173285

Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: May 2016

DOI: 10.7312/columbia/9780231173285.001.0001

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Writers

Writers

The Older Generation

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(p.47) 2 Writers
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Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts
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Ellen Wiles

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Columbia University Press
DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231173285.003.0002

This chapter explores the lives and literary work of the older generation of contemporary writers in Myanmar through three writers: U Win Tin, journalist, politician, co-founder of the NLD with Aung San Suu Kyi, former political prisoner, and poet; Shwegu May Hnin, broadcaster, essayist, novelist, former political prisoner, agony aunt; and Pe Myint, short story writer, medic, journalist, news journal editor, and press council member.

Keywords:   older generation, socialist realism, political prisoners, Win Tin, Shwegu May Hnin, Pe Myint

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