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Zaw Zaw Aung (writer)

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Zaw Zaw Aung (1937–2016) was a Burmese author, critic and public intellectual, best known for introducing the concepts of modernism and post-modernism to Burmese readers.[1] He was born in Monywa, and attended Mandalay University. He earned a master's degree from Rangoon University and later taught there. Aung died in Rangoon on January 26, 2016.[2]

References

  1. ^ Monique Skidmore (2005). Burma At The Turn Of The Twenty-first Century. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 188–193. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  2. ^ "Zaw Zaw Aung, Writer Famed for Ushering in Modernism, Dies at 79". The Irrawaddy. January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.