Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Poetic Obituaries: There, in 1936, came her [Ludu Daw Amar's] role

in the student strike. She also began to get published. In 1938 she translated the British civil servant Maurice Collis's critical assessment, Trials in Burma. In 1939 she married the journalist U Hla, who in 1933 had established the leftist Ludu Kyi-bwa-yay (Progress) magazine in Rangoon. Together they set up the Kyi-bwa-yay press in Mandalay.

from The Guardian: Ludu Daw Amar

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