Ma Thanegi

In this Burmese name, Ma is an honorific.
Ma Thanegi
Born 1946 (1946) (age 70)
Burma
Residence Yangon, Myanmar
Nationality Burmese
Occupation Author

Ma Thanegi (Burmese: မသိင်္ဂီ; born 1946[1]) is a Burmese writer, best known for her numerous English works on various Burmese topics, including travel, history and cuisine.[2] She is a contributing editor to the Myanmar Times and editor of Enchanting Myanmar, a travel magazine.[3] She is also an English translator, having translated the works of Khin Hnin Yu and other Burmese writers into English.[4]

Thanegi attended Methodist English High School, the Rangoon State School of Fine Arts, the Rangoon Institute of Economics, and Institute of Foreign Languages, where she studied German and French.[5]

Thanegi served as Aung San Suu Kyi's personal assistant before her arrest in 1989, following the 8888 Uprising.[6] She served a prison term at Insein Jail until her release in 1992.[6][6] She fell out of favor among the Burmese pro-democracy movement for her challenge to the National League for Democracy's doctrine that economic sanctions and tourism boycotts were harming the country's poor majority.[6][7] In 1997, she published "The Burmese Fairy Tale," an essay in the Far Eastern Economic Review, claiming that sanctions hurt the Burmese people without effectively changing the Burmese regime (then known as the State Law and Order Restoration Council)'s behavior.[8][9]

Selected works

References

  1. Gross, Matt (20 September 2012). "Burma Blossoms". Afar Magazine. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. "Ma Thanegi speaks: An interview with one of Myanmar’s leading writers". Myanmar Times. 17 February 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "Ma Thanegi". Guggenheim. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  4. Taylor, Robert H. (6 September 2010). "Short stories in review". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  5. "Ma Thanegi မသိဂႌ book list". Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Long, Douglas (20 October 2013). "Prison life and the art of joyful rebellion". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  7. Crampton, Thomas (17 March 1998). "Do Sanctions Really Work? Debate Is On In Burma". New York Times. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  8. Seekins, Donald M. (2006). Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar). Scarecrow Press. p. 388. ISBN 9780810864863.
  9. Seekins, Donald (19 September 2003). "Doing Something about Black Friday". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
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