Author · Burma (Myanmar)
P Moe Nin
Died in 1940
P Moe Nin, born Kyaw Nyunt on 5 November 1883 at Thonse, in Pegu province, left his poor family as a child for the school of a Christian mission, then studied at Moulmein and afterwards at the general college in Penang, and received the first name Philip at baptism, hence the initial of his pen name. For a time a Buddhist monk under Ledi Sayadaw, he was a schoolteacher, a clerk in an opium shop, a magazine editor and a journalist, without ever escaping hardship. Knocked down by a bicycle in December 1939, he died in Rangoon on 6 January 1940.