Mya Than Tint

Mya Than Tint was born in 1929 at Myaing, in the Pakokku region. He entered Rangoon University in 1948 and left in 1954 with a degree in philosophy, political science and English literature. A political prisoner from 1963 to 1972, first at Insein and then in the penal colony of the Coco Islands, in the Indian Ocean, he became one of the great translators of foreign literature into Burmese and five times received the national literature prize for translation. He died in Rangoon in 1998, at home, aged sixty-eight.

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• Novelဓားတောင်ကိုကျော်၍ မီးပင်လယ်ကိုဖြတ်မည်Mya Than Tint · 1973not translated into EnglishLiterature