|
||
|
PETITCHEF |
Add your blog-site | Add your recipes | Receive daily menu | Contact us | |
The Burmese Female Author of Colourful Burma
  THE AUTHOR Khin Myo Chit (b. 1915) started her writing career in the 1930s with short stories for magazines and weekly journals, and later worked on the editorial staff of a weekly. Her pre-war years were busy, whatwith getting involved in the country's struggle for independence against the British, free-lance writing and raising a family. When war came, it meant more involvement in partisan movements. After the war, she picked up the broken threads of her formal education and got her B.A. degree at the Rangoon University. She then began using English language as her medium in short stories and newspaper columns. She later worked as a features editor successively of the Guardian Daily and the Working People's Daily, both English language papers. Her short story Thirteen Carat Diamond was included in 50 Great Oriental Stories, a Bantam Classics, published in U.S.A. and Canada, March 1965. It was translated into Italian, German, Yugoslav and Gujarati languages. She wrote Anawrahta of Burma, a historical novel, based on the life of King Anawrahta, the 11th century founder of first Burmese Kingdom with its capital, Pagan. Her Infinite Variety was first published in HORIZONS as the prize-winning story of a contest open to South East Asian writers sponsored by the same magazine. A Wonderland of Burmese Legends published in Bangkok by the Tamarind Press received high acclaim in the foreign press. 
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Related recipes
(1 vote)
Recipes
Questions answers