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Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay

Died in 1982

Ma Ma Lay, born Tin Hlaing in 1917 in Karmaklu, in the Ayeyarwady division, published her first article in 1936. In 1939, she founded with her husband, U Chit Maung, the daily Journal Kyaw, whose name she took as her signature; widowed, she launched another newspaper, Pyithu Hittaing, in 1946, before students hostile to her ideas destroyed her printing press. In 1948 she was the first woman to preside over her country's writers' association, and she died in Rangoon in 1982.

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