Moe Moe (Inya)
Moe Moe (Burmese: မိုးမိုး, 24 October 1994) was a Burmese writer. She won the Myanmar National Literature Award four times. She is considered one of the most influential Burmese women writers. She wrote 101 short stories and serial novels, 24 full-length novels and 55 articles.[1][2][3][4]
Moe Moe (Inya) | |
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Native name | မိုးမိုး အင်းလျား |
Born | Daik-U, Bago Region, Myanmar | 24 October 1944
Died | 13 March 1990 45) | (aged
Occupation | Writer |
Alma mater | B.Sc (Maths) |
Notable awards | Myanmar National Literature Award(1974,1980,1982,1986) |
Spouse | Myo Nyunt |
Early life and education
Moe Moe (Inya) was born in DaikU , Bago Region, Myanmar on 1944 October 24. Her father was Biritsh U Tun and her mother was Daw Mya Shin. She graduated with a B.S. in Math from Yangon University.
Careers
Under her pen name Inya, she began writing poems while attending Yangon University in 1964.
in 1972, she wrote her first novel, ‘Pyauk-thaw-lann-hmar san-ta-war’, which received the National Literature Award in 1974.
In 1980, 1982 and 1986, she received short story awards for her short stories and anthologies. From 1989 to until the period before her death, she worked as the editor of Sabel Phyu Magazine.
Published Books
- Kywaymalo Nat Way Waymalo nat Kyway (ကြွေမလိုနဲ့ဝေ ဝေမလိုနဲ့ကြွေ) - 1981
- Joe (ဂျိုး)- 1980
- Ngapali ZLann (ငပလီဇာတ်လမ်း) - 1976
- Nyein ko Sharpar (ငြိမ်းကိုရှက်ပါ)- 1981
- Nyimalay Ka Achitko Koekwaythatatlar (ညီမလေးက အချစ်ကို ကိုးကွယ်သတဲ့လား) - 1981
- Pyaitethaw Lan mhar Santawar(ပျောက်သောလမ်းမှာ စမ်းတဝါး; Bewildering on the Lost Road ) - 1974
The list of novels made into film
- Achit Sothaw Ahyrar (အချစ်ဆိုသောအရာ) 1976
- Mhataparr Aahchyarmashi Pyi (မှတစ်ပါး အခြားမရှိပြီ) 1987
Death
She died in Yangon on March 13, 1990. At the time of her death she was survived by her husband, Myo Nyunt (also literary figure), two sons, and one daughter.
References
- "မိုးမိုး (အင်းလျား) ဝတ္ထုတိုပြိုင်ပွဲ ဆုရဝတ္ထုများ ၁၉၉၄- ၂၀ဝ၀" (in Burmese).
- "မိုးမိုး (အင်းလျား) ၇၅ နှစ်ပြည့် မွေးနေ့အထိမ်းအမှတ် မြန်မာစာပေနှင့် အနုပညာပွဲတော် ကျင်းပရန်အတွက် သတင်းစာရှင်းလင်းပွဲနှင့် စာပေစကားဝိုင်းကျင်းပမည်" (in Burmese).
- "မိုးမိုး(အင်းလျား)၇၅နှစ်ပြည့် မွေးနေ့အခမ်းအနားသို့ နိုင်ငံတော်အတိုင်ပင်ခံ နှုတ်ခွန်းဆက် စကားပို့" (in Burmese).
- "Writer Moe Moe (Inya) commemorated with literary festival".