Maung Htin

Maung Htin, whose real name was U Htin Fatt, was born on 21 March 1909 in Labutta, in the Myaungmya district. He entered Rangoon University in 1926, moved from the sciences to the arts and took his degree in 1933. A teacher in Myaungmya, then a civil servant, he served during the war in the Foreign Affairs and Information departments. He later ran a Rangoon daily and chaired the writers' association and the journalists' association. Awarded the national prize in 2003 for his body of work, he died in Rangoon on 29 January 2006.

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• NovelNga BaငဘMaung Htin · 1947Literature