| Honorific-Prefix: | Major General |
| Bo Taya ဗိုလ်တာရာ | |
| Order: | Member of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League |
| Birth Name: | Khin Maung Oo |
| Other Name: | Bo Tar Yar Monya Masaru |
| Birth Date: | 13 April 1913 |
| Birth Place: | Pyinmana, Myanmar |
| Parents: | Ah Kaut (father) Loon |
| Nationality: | Burmese |
| Alma Mater: | Grade 10 English-Burmese |
| Occupation: | Writer, Politician |
Bo Taya (born as Khin Maung Oo, 13 April 1919 in Pyinman) was a Burmese writer, military officer and a member of the Thirty Comrades.[1] He served in the Burmese National Army (BIA) and Burmese Defense Force and participated in the Japanese Revolution.[2] [3] [4]
On 13 April 1919, he was born in Pyinmana. His birth name was Khin Maung Oo.
1936, he joined the Pyinmana District's Dobama Asiayone and was actively involved in the District Federation of Student Unions, District Burial Armed Forces and in the establishment of the Farmers' Union within the district.
From 1942 to 1945, he joined the Burmese National Army (BIA) and Burmese Defence Force and participated in the Japanese Revolution.
1959 he married Daw Saw Khin. In the 1960 Burmese general election, he was elected as a Pyithu Hluttaw MP. In 1961, he received a literature award for his novel Thirty Comrades's Back of Home.
Bo Taya died in Yangon on February 6, 1993.[5]