Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Poetic Obituaries: An activist during the 1988

pro-democracy uprising, Tayar Min Wai was arrested in 1991 and served sentences in Insein, Thayawaddy and Thayet prisons.

He was released in 1995 and went o­n to publish nearly 40 books, including novels, poetry and short story collections—all of which sold well throughout Burma.

from The Irrawaddy: Burmese Novelist Tayar Min Wai Dead at 41

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