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• NarrativeThe Thirty-Seven Natsနတ်Anonymous · 1100The legends of the thirty-seven spirits of the Burmese pantheon, a cult that the monarchy, unable to ban it, attached to Buddhism.Literature
• PoetryTawlaShin Uttamagyaw · 1500not translated into EnglishA Burmese monastic poem from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, a journey through the forest turned into meditation.Literature
• Poetryကိုးခန့်ပျို့Bhikkhu Ratthasara · 1523not translated into EnglishA long Buddhist poem of 1523, drawn from a previous life of the Buddha, in which renunciation spreads from one to the next.Literature
• PoetryManawhari pyoNawadegyi · 1579not translated into EnglishA Buddhist tale of love and separation, put into verse in 1579 by a Burmese court poet.Literature
• Poetryနတ်သျှင်နောင်ရတုNatshinnaung · 1603not translated into EnglishLove poems by a Burmese warrior prince, written for a princess whom the court denied him.Literature
• TheatreThe Water-Sellerရေသည်ပြဇာတ်U Ponnya · 1860A Burmese court play of the nineteenth century, drawn from a jataka, in which a man of the people crosses the king's path.Literature
• NovelMaung Yin Maung and Ma Me MaMaung Yin Maung Ma Me MaJames Hla Kyaw · 1904A dispossessed husband, disguises and a name to clear: Dumas transposed to Burma, at the dawn of the Burmese novel.Literature
• NarrativeA Crazy Man's Shoulder BagHmawbi Saya Thein · 1910not translated into EnglishAnecdotes gathered across the country by a collector of traditions, under British rule.Literature
• Chronicleဗိုလ်ဋီကာThakin Kodaw Hmaing · 1914not translated into EnglishSatirical articles of 1913-1914 against the Burmese who copied the manners of the English, even in their names.Literature
• NovelနေညိုညိုP Moe Nin · 1920not translated into EnglishA Burmese novel of 1920 that follows a young woman born in secret, between her village and the city.Literature
• Feature filmLove and Liquorမေတ္တာနှင့်သူရာU Ohn Maung · 1920The first Burmese feature film, a silent film from 1920 against gambling and alcohol.Cinema
• Novelဗညားနွဲ့Ledipandita U Maung Gyi · 1928not translated into EnglishThe youth of a fourteenth-century Mon king, turned into a novel to awaken the pride of the Burmese under colonization.Literature
• Feature filmငွေပေးလို့မရToke Kyi · 1932The first Burmese talking film, shot in India in 1932 for lack of sound equipment in the country.Cinema
• NovelShwé SungoDagon Khin Khin Lay · 1933not translated into EnglishA Burmese novel of 1933 that celebrates resistance to the colonizer, written by one of the first women writers of the country.Literature
• Novelတက်ဘုန်းကြီးThein Pe Myint · 1936not translated into EnglishA Burmese novel of the thirties that showed monks unfaithful to their rule, in a country where the clergy was not open to discussion.Literature
• Feature filmDou daung lanParot U Sunny · 1936A Burmese film of 1936 that the colonial authorities banned, and whose title takes up the emblem of the national movement.Cinema
• Feature filmBoycotterဘွိုင်ကော့တာU Nu · 1937A Burmese political film of 1937, performed by the student leaders who were to lead the country to independence.Cinema
• Feature filmအောင်သပြေTin Maung · 1937A Burmese film of 1937 on the fall of the Burmese monarchy, which the colonial authorities prevented from being released in cinemas.Cinema
• DiaryWartime in Burmaစစ်အတွင်း နေ့စဉ်မှတ်တမ်းTheippan Maung Wa · 1942The diary of a senior Burmese official during the Japanese invasion of 1942, published a quarter of a century later.Literature
• NovelNga BaငဘMaung Htin · 1947The war and the Japanese occupation seen by a peasant of the Burmese delta, in a novel written as the conflict ended.Literature
• NovelNot Out of Hateမုန်း၍မဟူJournal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay · 1955A Burmese marriage under the colony, in which a husband enamoured of English manners keeps his young wife away from her family.Literature
• Short storyThe 13-Carat DiamondKhin Myo Chit · 1955A Burmese couple during the war and the mirage of a diamond: Khin Myo Chit's best-known short story.Literature
• Feature filmဘဝသံသရာU Thu Kha · 1956The most famous film of a great Burmese filmmaker, released in 1956, which takes as its subject the Buddhist cycle of rebirths.Cinema
• Poetryဗေဒါလမ်းZawgyi · 1963not translated into EnglishA sequence of Burmese poems in which the floating plant carried off by the river stands for the endurance of an existence.Literature
• Novelဓားတောင်ကိုကျော်၍ မီးပင်လယ်ကိုဖြတ်မည်Mya Than Tint · 1973not translated into EnglishA Burmese novel of 1973 that makes a worker its hero, published by a writer just out of nine years of political imprisonment.Literature
• NovelSmile as They BowNu Nu Yi · 1994A cross-dressing medium, his young lover and the Taungbyon spirit festival: a Burmese novel long held back by censorship.Literature

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