Nat Nwe | |
Birth Name: | Hla Myint |
Birth Date: | 1 February 1933 |
Birth Place: | Myitkyina, British Burma |
Resting Place: | Yayway Cemetery, Yangon |
Death Place: | North Dagon Township, Yangon, Myanmar |
Nationality: | Burmese |
Known For: | Founder of Nwe Ni magazine |
Occupation: | Writer, Poet |
Parents: | Ba Wan Saw Lon |
Awards: | National Literature Award |
Hla Myint, better known by his pseudonym Nat Nwe (Burmese: နတ်နွယ်), was a prominent Burmese writer, best known as the founder of Nwe Ni, a foreign affairs magazine.[1] He began his career in 1950, after publishing a poem titled "Schoolgirl" in the Hanthawaddy newspaper.[1] Over the course of his career, he wrote more than 100 novels and translated 20 from other languages into Burmese.[1] He died of natural causes at his home on 11 May 2011 and was cremated at Yayway Cemetery on 13 May.[2] [3]