Tin Shwe Explained

Honorific Prefix:Sayawun
Tin Shwe
Birth Name:Tin Shwe
Birth Date:1936
Birth Place:Moulmein, British Burma
Death Place:Myanmar
Nationality:Burmese
Occupation:Writer
Parents:Pa
Shin Shin
Spouse:Aye Thant
Children:Tyn Tyn Aye
Thet Thet Shwe
Thet Lwin Shwe
Alma Mater:Moulmein Intermediate College
Rangoon Medical College
Awards:National Literature Award

Sayawun Tin Shwe (Burmese: တင်ရွှေ; died December 2000) was a prominent physician and author in Myanmar.

He was a committee member of the Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association (MWJA),and founded the Tin Shwe publishing house.

His widow, Aye Thant, established the annual Sayawun Tin Shwe Award in his memory.This award, given with the assistance of the Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association, gives awards for new books to encourage the development of Myanmar literature.

Sayawun Tin Shwe was Medical Superintendent of the Htaukkyant Leprosarium, near Rangoon.He wrote fiction as well as medical articles.

In 1963, Tin Shwe won the National Literature Award in the General Knowledge Literature category.In August 1996 Dr. Tin Shwe of the Medical Research Department was a member of a delegation of Myanmar writers that visited Russia.[1] In June 2000 Tin Shwe was Chairman of the MWJA Health and Welfare Work Committee.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: BURMA PRESS SUMMARY . "The New Light of Myanmar . X . 8 . August 1996 . 2012-02-20.
  2. Web site: Health and Welfare Work Committee of MWJA Central Body holds a coord meeting . . 20 June 2000.